XHB - Interest Rates And Home Prices

• Certainly a case can be made that some of the recent price movement has been related to declining real long term yields.
• Rent/price yields are not uniform across cities. They decrease systematically where rents are high.
• In the mid-20th century, housing yields remained stable because when rents increased, a lot of new homes were built until rents declined again.

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