Post-crisis housing market: origins and prospects

Abstract

Post-crisis housing market: origins and prospects

The global financial crisis has demonstrated that the housing market is mainly speculative. This tendency is problematic for policymakers and businessmen because by its very nature, no one knows the understanding and the logic of housing speculative investments, how large they are and how to predict the long-term cycles. The paper gives an overview of the causes, major threats and dangers of speculative investments in real estate. It provides a number of strategic measures to promote post-crisis perspectives of the housing industry.

Keywords: crisis, housing market, speculative investment, mediation nets, collapse investing, post-crisis perspectives