I may be off, but I get the same exact feeling as when trekking across Spain before the housing market crashed there: There are just not enough wealthy people to populate all these new things.BF004 wrote: ↑14 Oct 2021 17:12They wouldn’t build them if they weren’t planning on being profitable, bringing down rent costs for everyone if there is a surplus of housing. That isn’t a bad problem. Unless it is coming from a central planning direction, then the equilibrium likely to be off and you could have problems. Not sure what it’s like in Finland, have a better idea in China. But in the US, if anything, it’s too difficult to build apartments buildings in the US, driving rent costs sky high an increasing homeless population.salmar80 wrote: ↑14 Oct 2021 16:52Personally, if I had any assets, I'd put some extremely safe right now, like in boring gold.
I really, really don't like it, when they're building more luxury apartments than there are people who can even theoretically pay for them. Whether in Finland, the US or in China.
Some level of a crash is coming.
Don’t have a link or video off the top of my head, but check out some stories on San Francisco and their controls on the rental world there and the unintended consequences, such as unsustainable rent costs and extremely high homeless populations. They literally will not let thousands of willing builders build for millions in need of more affordable housing.
I'd save my cash and load up when there are ghost towns to be bought.