The Unassuming Economist

Links to the week’s top housing market stories.

Cross Country

• Canada’s Housing Market Starts to Strengthen After Rate Cut – Bloomberg
• Canada real estate: Home prices continue to rise despite slumping sales, says Royal LePage – Yahoo Finance
• Are We in a Housing Bubble in 2024? – Norada Real Estate Investments
• The Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in Europe: Biggest Price Drops in Germany, Finland, Sweden, Austria, France, Denmark – Wolf Street
• Vietnam’s Residential Property Market Analysis 2024 – Global Property Guide

US

• Better news on housing construction plus a methodological improvement pushes up the forecast – The Nowcast (and other thoughts on the economy)
• A Discussion of the Housing Market with Lance Lambert (ResiClub) – CalculatedRisk Newsletter
• Home Insurance Rates in America Are Wildly Distorted. Here’s Why – New York Times
• NAHB Urges Congress to Address Housing Affordability Crisis – NAHB
• Rate cuts won’t fix housing affordability, economist says – Yahoo Finance
• Florida is bucking the national housing trend, real estate firm says – Fox Business
• America’s most livable small cities revealed, with locals loving their reasonable housing costs, plentiful jobs and great amenities – Daily Mail
• Could policies solve US housing affordability crisis? – MPA Mag