

While bubbles may be identifiable in progress, bubbles can be definitively measured only in hindsight after a market correction, which began in 2005–2006 for the U.S. This bubble roughly coincides with the real-estate bubbles of the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Spain, Poland, Hungary and South Korea. This bubble may be related to the stock market or dot-com bubble of the 1990s. Factors include tax policy (exemption of housing from capital gains), historically low interest rates, lax lending standards, failure of regulators to intervene, and speculative fever. The underlying causes of the housing bubble are complex. This may be followed by decreases in home prices that result in many owners finding themselves in a position of negative equity-a mortgage debt higher than the value of the property. In their late stages, they are typically characterized by rapid increases in the valuations of real property until unsustainable levels are reached relative to incomes, price-to-rent ratios, and other economic indicators of affordability. Housing bubbles may occur in local or global real estate markets. metro areas, which can be found at the website for the Lincoln Institute for Land Policy. Using this methodology, Davis and Palumbo calculated land values for 46 U.S. An estimate of land value for a house can be derived by subtracting the replacement value of the structure, adjusted for depreciation, from the home price. This can be seen in the building cost index in Fig. Land prices contributed much more to the price increases than did structures.

Because of the large market share of Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) (both of which are government-sponsored enterprises) as well as the Federal Housing Administration, they received a substantial share of government support, even though their mortgages were more conservatively underwritten and actually performed better than those of the private sector. This was shared between the public sector and the private sector. In 2008 alone, the United States government allocated over $900 billion to special loans and rescues related to the U.S. housing market for homeowners who were unable to pay their mortgage debts. Bush and the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke to announce a limited bailout of the U.S. Concerns about the impact of the collapsing housing and credit markets on the larger U.S. housing bubble has a direct impact not only on home valuations, but mortgage markets, home builders, real estate, home supply retail outlets, Wall Street hedge funds held by large institutional investors, and foreign banks, increasing the risk of a nationwide recession. Secretary of the Treasury, called the bursting housing bubble "the most significant risk to our economy". homeowners led to a crisis in August 2008 for the subprime, Alt-A, collateralized debt obligation (CDO), mortgage, credit, hedge fund, and foreign bank markets. Increased foreclosure rates in 2006–2007 among U.S. The credit crisis resulting from the bursting of the housing bubble is an important cause of the Great Recession in the United States. On December 30, 2008, the Case–Shiller home price index reported its largest price drop in its history. Housing prices peaked in early 2006, started to decline in 20, and reached new lows in 2011. It was the impetus for the subprime mortgage crisis. The 2000s United States housing bubble was a real-estate bubble affecting over half of the U.S.
