'Good' news from the housing market in Germany: real estate prices seem to be picking up, interest rates are falling and stimulating mortgage demand, overregulation (thanks to fanatical climate policies) is draining capital from the construction industry to build more housing and so everyone can hope that home ownership remains an unaffordable dream for the majority of citizens... or a debt trap for those who took a loan and are being economically destroyed in the recession!
47 sats \ 0 replies \ @Golu 10 Sep
I think this is just last little hope that Germany is left with.
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I live in a weird area of the US, and there's so much construction, great swaths of land close to where I live are having huge subdivisions built on them.
At least I think it's weird, I don't know what home construction looks like in the rest of the US.
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47 sats \ 0 replies \ @Cowboy 9 Sep
But Everything is going down in terms of bitcoin
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The issuance of fiat money toward housing needs to be removed from the grasping hands of private for profit bankers. As long as we still have a fiat debt based issuance monetary system it is insane to allow for profit banks to issue new currency for the purpose of the purchase of existing housing. It will only result - as it has done ever since the neoliberal reforms of the 1980s - in these banks issuing an ever increasing ratio of new fiat debt currency toward existing housing thus creating a housing price inflation spiral that damages every aspect of the economy except speculators and bankers. This is one of the greatest heists and cons of history- done in broad daylight by bankers who have captured our politicians, media and mainstream narratives and are thus capable of obfuscating their blatant predatory misuse of fiat debt monetary issuance. Reinstate the logical and essential restriction that was until the 1980s imposed on for profit banks that they only issue fiat finance-capital-debt toward productive purposes and end this parasitic rentseeking fiat debt farming insanity. It is destroying the fabric our economies and societies. The only problem is these bankers own your government...so it might not be so easy to fix this.
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47 sats \ 1 reply \ @Satosora 9 Sep
An unaffordable dream for everyone. Even in the USA. IF only they would just build bungaloos again.
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It's totally over-regulated over here. You wouldn't imagine how bas it is thanks to the climate cult
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Yeah but lowering rates means debt burden becomes easier. May be it is not so straightforward.
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And it means the political parasites will grow debt faster
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Isn't it like in Germany max gov debt load was defined in constitution?
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Yes. And now we learned sth important about the value of this peace of toilet paper
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47 sats \ 1 reply \ @notgeld 9 Sep
I think you are too critical. Probably, they should have added tax load, too. But sigh
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Never trust political papers!
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