http://www.theatlantic.com/business/arc ... da/272499/"
Това като допълнение към темата на Таня, за housing affordability.
The distinction between higher prices and bubbly prices isn't as subjective as it might sound. Like any other financial asset, there should be a fairly steady relationship between the price of housing and the stream of income -- rent -- it produces. Should be. The chart below, from The Economist, looks at the price-to-rent ratios across different countries, and measures how under-or-overvalued housing is, with negative numbers corresponding to the former and positive ones to the latter.
За незапознатите, дефиниция на показателя:
Trulia establishes thresholds for the ratios as follows:
Price-to-rent ratio of 1 to 15 = much better to buy than rent
Price-to-rent ratio of 16 to 20 = typically better the rent than buy
Price-to-rent ratio of 21 or more = much better to rent than buy
Канада е с най-високо съотношение price-to-rent от развитите държави - 80, четири пъти над референтния праг, което в голяма степен обезсмисля купуването.
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