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Looking to buy cheap land? Here is the cheapest in the USA.

About one-quarter of Americans’ assets are real estate and this map of land values across the USA shows where the most valuable real estate is located: You can make out the outlines of Iowa which has higher rural land value

Posted in Public Finance, Real Estate

Homeownership rates and severity of financial crisis

The St. Louis Fed produced the above graph showing that nations with higher homeownership rates were hit harder by the 2007 financial crisis and are still dealing with greater aftereffects today. Nations with the most rental properties like Switzerland and

Posted in Macro, Real Estate

The economics of residential density

Most Americans are used to low-density towns and suburbs and like them a lot. Many Americans have experienced unpleasant high-population-density places in America. In fact most of the high-density urban areas in the US were relatively unpleasant in recent US

Posted in Public Finance, Real Estate

House prices are crazy overvalued in Canada too

Canada is experiencing the hydrogen zeppelin of all real estate bubbles. It makes the 2008 US housing crisis look like a birthday balloon by comparison.

Posted in Globalization & International, Macro, Real Estate

House prices are a bit high in the US and crazy overvalued in New Zealand

New Zealand is experiencing the hydrogen zeppelin of all real estate bubbles. It makes the 2008 US housing crisis look like a birthday balloon by comparison.

Posted in Globalization & International, Macro, Real Estate

Hernando de Soto & Property Rights

Hernando de Soto thinks that formal property rights are the key to prosperity and that the government must clearly define and enforce specific private ownership rights.  De Soto’s thesis is that government must be efficient at clarifying the legal ownership rights

Posted in Development, Real Estate

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