Saturday, December 24, 2011

Spotting a Bubble

An excellent article by Bill Moss, who was very senior at Macquarie Bank, has been published recently.

"I have always believed that no one should ever invest in anything unless the fundamentals are right. If the people who pay the rent or borrow the money to purchase a property cannot afford to keep up repayments, then a property investment fails. After a global financial crisis, the concept of keeping vacant real estate as an inventory item, as the sheiks of Dubai did or as the Chinese and Russians tried to do, is doomed to end in tears."
Read the full article at Property Observer.

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