Canada houses overvalued

onceninerfan

Canada's housing ranks among the world's most overvalued, alongside New Zealand and Hong Kong, when it comes to Overvalued real estate markets in Canada and elsewhere show an "unhappy resemblance" to the conditions that existed in America prior to the financial crisis.
So says The Economist, which released a set of data last week showing that homes are at least 25 per cent overvalued in the Great White North and eight other countries.
A chart provided by the publication showed that Canada's price-to-rent ratio sat at 175.9 per cent in the second quarter of 2014, right on top of the world alongside Hong Kong and New Zealand.
Canada and New Zealand also sat in a similar place when it came to prices against average incomes. Canada had a ratio of 132.3 per cent in the year's second quarter, while New Zealand's was 129.7 in the first (data was not available for its second quarter).
Both were trumped in this category by Belgium, whose price-to-income ratio was 146 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2013 (data for 2014's first two quarters was not available).
The ominous tone for Canada's real estate was consistent with that set by Fitch Ratings in July, when it said that the country's home prices were overvalued by 20 per cent.
One of the reasons was that low interest rates were driving up the housing market since the 2008 financial crisis. Consumers thus had an easier time borrowing money, which also contributed to rising household debt-to-income ratios.
Analysts have long predicted that Canada could be headed for a housing crash. Capital Economics in May predicted a 25 per cent drop in prices over the long term, having observed slowdowns in areas such as Halifax, Winnipeg and Victoria.

OK, Canada houses are overvalued at least 25 percent.
That means those recently bought houses overpaid 25 percent for nothing.
Who's gonna keep doing that --- borrowing money from bank, carrying on extra debt to overpay a house just for "making money"?
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Only those retarded.