The latest figures suggest that the house-price boom in Britain itself is finally cooling off.
At home, the main risk is that lower interest rates will prolong the house-price boom.
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After all, this was one of the few rich countries that skipped the global house-price boom.
Some mortgage firms have radically loosened their lending policies in recent years, helping fuel the house price boom.
During the oil-price boom of 2008 they did not even cover the cost of the fuel burned in Indonesia's power stations.
The mortgage market is still young: a startling aspect of Moscow's wild property-price boom is how little it is driven by mortgages.
Some of them have actually gone from price boom to price bust to boom again, all within the span of a decade.
When the brakes finally went on, the legacy of the house-price boom made the recession of the early 1990s all the worse.
Ironically, that success appears to be contributing to the present house-price boom.
After a 12-year bull run since 2000 this pattern would suggest that the commodity price boom may be at, or near, its end.
In Australia, where the house-price boom has been driven by the buy-to-let market, investors now account for 45% of all new mortgage lending.
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Economists are interested in studying the borrowing response of households to rising house prices and increasing home equity during the recent house price boom for two main reasons.
Quite apart from the prospects for growth, the Bank will be concerned that a bigger house-price boom will lead to a sharper subsequent bust which could hurt the economy.
The price boom had a big effect on sentiment and of course terms of trade but in terms of actual activity delivered into the Australian economy, it's been quite modest.
But what makes Australia's house-price boom look even more fragile than those in Britain or America is the extraordinary importance of the buy-to-let market, which accounted for 45% of all new mortgage borrowing last year.
In real terms house prices in America, Britain and Australia have risen more rapidly in recent years than during the late 1980s house-price boom, leaving prices close to record highs in relation to both rents and household incomes.
Ms Barker was investigating why the supply of new houses had responded so sluggishly to the house-price boom, with completions actually falling to a low of about 175, 000 in 2001, although they have since staged a recovery (see chart).
The first are undervalued, affordable markets like Fort Worth, Texas, which haven't felt huge, post-boom price corrections, but where there is an expected acceleration in sales volume, making now the time to buy.
But during the recent housing boom, price growth significantly outpaced income growth.
Plus, many of these options will probably never be exercised due to Cisco's boom-time share price.
Industry and home owners are paying the price for a South East property boom fuelled by excessive city bonuses.
Considering that the quality of the streaming catalog for movies is about that of early 2010 (and expired and unrenewed contracts have been countered with only meager additions) and the by-mail DVD services are comparable to about the same era, I figure the stock should be comparable in price to the pre-2010 boom.
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Changes in the number of houses for sale are widely seen as a good 'leading indicator' of price-changes: in a boom-period there are more buyers than sellers, so the number of properties for sale diminishes, and in a 'bust' period sellers exceed the number of those willing to buy at current prices, so prices tend to fall, as seems already to be happening in many areas.
Widening inequalities were widely seen as the necessary price of growing global prosperity during the boom years.
The petroleum drilling boom has brought down the price of natural gas.
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Despite paying initial lip-service to the need to counteract the debilitating oil-price cycle by saving money during the boom years, he has virtually emptied the fund set up in 1998 for that purpose.
One of them: We are currently in the midst of a historic productivity boom, most spectacularly in the price of computing power, which falls 50% every 18 months.
Other analysts have noted that many newer tablets - particularly 7in (18cm) models - were selling at almost cost price, leading to minimal profits despite the boom in units shipped.
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