Unlike US home prices, UK prices go up. A bubble?
Home prices in the US and UK have tended to move together in recent years. Now, UK home prices have turned up.
Home prices in the United Kingdom have recently turned up after following US prices downward for years.
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One of the more interesting and most dramatic features of the housing bubble days was how pervasive and broad the mania was, encompassing a multitude of regional housing markets across the United States and around the globe.
Today, post-housing crash, we are still seeing property markets continuing to move together somewhat as governments around the globe scramble to prop up quickly deflating housing assets with boondoggles that quickly reveal themselves as being mere temporary distortions to a trend the remains "organically" in decline.
Comparing the S&P/Case-Shiller (CSI) index to that of the two popular U.K. home prices indices you can see that while all three indices were showing some significant signs of deceleration in recent months, now both UK series have shown some notable increases.
The chart above shows S&P/Case-Shiller Composite-10 series along with the Nationwide and Halifax U.K. series.
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