Loose monetary policy makes him nervous about the possibility of a property bubble in Germany.
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Apocryphal, surely, but it summed up the hype during Japan's property bubble in the late 1980s.
Banks face more damage from the risky lending that primed a burst property bubble.
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Its deficits and debt were the consequence of the burst property bubble, not the cause.
Spain has struggled since the onset of the financial crisis in 2008 when its property bubble burst.
This means that, unlike in for example Spain, Germany has not experienced a mortgage debt-fuelled property bubble.
The Florida housing market was one of the worst hit when the property bubble burst in 2008.
More worrying is the absence of obvious sources of growth after the bursting of Spain's property bubble.
Investors also fear a rise in bad loans should a property bubble burst as it did in Thailand.
Largely unaffected by the technology bubble, it remains to be seen whether Australia can weather a property bubble.
The late 1980s property bubble was too recent and too painful for the memory to have been erased.
"Japan in 1989--that was a property bubble, " observes MIT economist Jerry A. Hausman.
But Cyprus is now also suffering from the deflation of a property bubble.
Three years ago, at the height of a property bubble, there were about 360, 000 such households in Hong Kong.
Its problems were caused by a burst property bubble and can be solved, the Germans hope, by export-led growth.
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Moreover, relying on housing wealth to fuel consumption might create a property bubble.
As Ireland's property bubble burst, it triggered a crisis in the public finances.
Goodbody was owned by Allied Irish Banks during the property bubble but was sold to financial services group Fexco in 2010.
There is every reason to think that it will continue to do so, even if the current property bubble bursts spectacularly.
Then a property bubble burst, causing real estate prices to plunge 65%.
Indeed, one of the bigger ironies of the property bubble was that lenders and investors probably thought they were being relatively prudent.
In order to pop a property bubble and damp inflation, the government has tightened credit, driving property prices down by something like 20%-30%.
One could always count on the land rising in value year after year, at least before the Japanese property bubble burst in 1990.
If it is a success, it will send an encouraging signal to a region whose troubles began with a property bubble in Bangkok.
Short of knocking down the million unsold new homes left after the property bubble burst, that will not pick up for many years.
The details are contained in the accounts of GSB Millmount Homes plc, a company set up by Goodbody stockbrokers during the Irish property bubble.
This suggests one way to reduce the risk of a property bubble: rely less on bank debt to finance construction, and more on equity.
However, it may also reflect the bottoming-out of prices and activity in the US housing market following the collapse of last decade's property bubble.
These deposits were then used to inflate a domestic property bubble, to fund Greek corporate loans and to buy large quantities of Greek government bonds.
As it happens, the residential property bubble in America has begun to lose air and the overall economy has eased some, but commodities have risen.
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