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04-12-2022, 08:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Gerbs  If RE drops 75%, I think a majority of us can cash buy a house, I think a majority of people can do that even if it dropped 40%  | If RE drops 75% in Vancouver I think most of us would probably consider not living here or can no longer live here.
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04-12-2022, 08:42 PM
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I've been hearing about a supposed pending crash in BC since I was a kid. That was long enough ago that you could've paid off a mortgage by now lol.
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04-12-2022, 10:55 PM
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Originally Posted by SumAznGuy No man, go back to page one of this thread.
People been predicting a market crash for a long time.
*Edit this thread started in 2012 but there was another one that had the same predictions back in 2008. | There's a similar thread on Red flag deals that started in 2012 too, and it has pricing going back to 2002.
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04-12-2022, 10:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Gerbs If RE drops 75%, I think a majority of us can cash buy a house, I think a majority of people can do that even if it dropped 40% | If it drops 75% and Vancouver is still as beautiful as it is today, people on revscene will be fighting each other to buy up entire blocks lol.
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04-12-2022, 11:27 PM
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^buying the entire block is the only way to get away from pie plates.
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04-13-2022, 07:13 AM
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Bank of Canada raises rates by 50bps from .5% to 1%. Maybe instead of 6-8 increases we see 3 big ass ones instead.
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04-13-2022, 07:36 AM
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^ kind a funny that people are all tied up in knots that interest rate is 1%. I remember my parents paying like 12-15% interest/mortgage rate ... and they still bought a house ... haha.
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04-13-2022, 08:09 AM
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they also bought a house for under $200k
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04-13-2022, 08:33 AM
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Originally Posted by whitev70r ^ kind a funny that people are all tied up in knots that interest rate is 1%. I remember my parents paying like 12-15% interest/mortgage rate ... and they still bought a house ... haha. | I survived 18% in the early 80's. Had no choice. Timing was bad.
Houses wer under 200k, but wages were like shit............ barely qualified for a mortgage.
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04-13-2022, 08:38 AM
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Originally Posted by MG1 I survived 18% in the early 80's. Had no choice. Timing was bad.
Houses wer under 200k, but wages were like shit............ barely qualified for a mortgage. | What percentage of people do you think 18% would bankrupt today considering homes and most mortgages are probably 7-10x what they were in the 80s? I don't even have a big mortgage relatively speaking compared to some people but it would probably do me in.
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04-13-2022, 08:51 AM
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Originally Posted by MG1 Houses wer under 200k, but wages were like shit............ barely qualified for a mortgage. | Is that any different today? Were rental suites required to qualify? And this is at 1% interest….
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04-13-2022, 09:19 AM
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For those laughing at the bears, just because the risk hasn't materialized, it doesn't mean the risk wasn't there. That is a classical logical fallacy in risk management. If you guys don't think its possible for RE here to experience a sustained decline, look no further than what happened to Japan a couple of decades ago.  
At least Japan had a robust economy at that time; At the bubble's peak in the early 1990's, Japan was the 2nd largest economy in the world behind US (US GDP of 5.7 trillion vs JP GDP of 3.1 trillion USD). Last time I checked, Van's economy is... not that special to say the least? When the bubble popped, property prices in JP declined as much as 60% spanning over two decades. If you study markets long enough, you will realize that markets are always cyclic in nature because that's how humans fundamentally behave at a macro level. You can go back thousands of years dating back to the Romans and observe market cycles. Trying to time the peak and trough is a fool's errand but markets will eventually mean-revert back to its fundamentals. With the recent deployment of Modern Monetary Theory (extremely low interest rates under Quantitative Easing etc.), central bankers have managed to stretch out the market cycles but I doubt that we have eliminated recessions all together from our economy.
Another fun comparison: Since 2010, S&P500 has return ~3x and Nasdaq100 has returned ~7x. If I had 1M invested between these two indices in 2010, I'd be somewhere between 3~7M right now even without any additional investments during that period. Doesn't sound like a very bad deal considering I would have slept sound at night knowing that my wealth is well diversified across the world's largest companies as opposed to largely dependent on a single residential property? Before you compare it against some anecdotal RE gains, you should only be comparing unlevered returns since leverage (i.e. taking on debt and thereby increasing risk) is a separate investment decision altogether.
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04-13-2022, 09:43 AM
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I think very few of those "housing bears" are not fiscally wise enough that they are making those proper investments to realise the gains you speak. How many people had a million bucks in 2010 to invest? But a half million dollar mortgage was very obtainable.
While your points make sense if you're using secondary properties as an investment vehicle. It's much more difficult and complex when you're talking about your actual home you need to live in.
I don't know about you, but I sleep better at night knowing that I don't have to worry about a landlord deciding to sell my home from under me and throwing my life into stress and turmoil.
You can't live inside those diversified investments for 25 years. If that means I'll have a bit less overall wealth at the end of it, oh well.
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04-13-2022, 10:36 AM
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Originally Posted by Great68 It's much more difficult and complex when you're talking about your actual home you need to live in. | Agree 100%, buying a property to live in is more than a pure investment decision. My post was more poking fun at the crowd who seem to think that our RE market here is somehow immune to the tides of broader market cycles. I bet during the 80's people in JP were making the type of comments about how their city/country is so special that the their RE gravy train is going to last forever. Quote:
Originally Posted by Great68 I don't know about you, but I sleep better at night knowing that I don't have to worry about a landlord deciding to sell my home from under me and throwing my life into stress and turmoil. | If someone bought their place a really long time ago when prices were reasonable, then sure, they're just playing with house money at this point so why wouldn't they sleep well at night. Could we say the same thing about someone who have recently invested their entire net worth as down payment for a condo in Brentwood at ~1,200/sqft (i.e. abysmal cap rate)? My point is, sitting on the sidelines, when the risk/reward ratio seems utterly skewed, is a reasonable choice for some people.
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04-13-2022, 10:39 AM
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04-13-2022, 10:56 AM
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Originally Posted by GGnoRE For those laughing at the bears, just because the risk hasn't materialized, it doesn't mean the risk wasn't there. That is a classical logical fallacy in risk management. If you guys don't think its possible for RE here to experience a sustained decline, look no further than what happened to Japan a couple of decades ago.
At least Japan had a robust economy at that time; At the bubble's peak in the early 1990's, Japan was the 2nd largest economy in the world behind US (US GDP of 5.7 trillion vs JP GDP of 3.1 trillion USD). Last time I checked, Van's economy is... not that special to say the least? When the bubble popped, property prices in JP declined as much as 60% spanning over two decades. If you study markets long enough, you will realize that markets are always cyclic in nature because that's how humans fundamentally behave at a macro level. You can go back thousands of years dating back to the Romans and observe market cycles. Trying to time the peak and trough is a fool's errand but markets will eventually mean-revert back to its fundamentals. With the recent deployment of Modern Monetary Theory (extremely low interest rates under Quantitative Easing etc.), central bankers have managed to stretch out the market cycles but I doubt that we have eliminated recessions all together from our economy.
Another fun comparison: Since 2010, S&P500 has return ~3x and Nasdaq100 has returned ~7x. If I had 1M invested between these two indices in 2010, I'd be somewhere between 3~7M right now even without any additional investments during that period. Doesn't sound like a very bad deal considering I would have slept sound at night knowing that my wealth is well diversified across the world's largest companies as opposed to largely dependent on a single residential property? Before you compare it against some anecdotal RE gains, you should only be comparing unlevered returns since leverage (i.e. taking on debt and thereby increasing risk) is a separate investment decision altogether. | Japan is a very special case and takes a certain set of circumstances for that to happen. Canada in particular is very welcoming of immigrants (our whole doctrine is based around immigration) whereas it's extremely hard to get Japanese citizenship which limits external factors that would help against that fall.
Even in Japan, their initial drop was 35% over 3 years, yeah that's gonna hurt for Vancouver too, but most people that bought in even a year ago are pretty much priced in against a 20% drop so in reality the exposure for SFH isn't that large. SFH also has the benefit of being a scarce commodity now. Now if you bought a 500sqft 1bd at $500k it's going to suck if you are fully stretched out.
After the initial falling, 25% over 15 years is really small imo, and it's unlikely Vancouver would be falling for that long save for some catastrophic event.
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04-13-2022, 10:59 AM
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Originally Posted by whitev70r ^ kind a funny that people are all tied up in knots that interest rate is 1%. I remember my parents paying like 12-15% interest/mortgage rate ... and they still bought a house ... haha. | A house in Vancouver back then was about 5x the median family income. Now it’s about 30x.
It’s pretty reasonable to carry a 100k mortgage at 18% compared to a 1.5million dollar mortgage at 2% with only 1.8x the salary. Not to mention the 500k for a down payment as opposed to 50-100k if you go ham on savings for 5 years. It’s completely incomparable.
I get it, not everyone needs a house with a yard, priorities and expectations have changed. But the condos we are living in, with the jobs many of us have we could have bought cash by the time we were able to buy nowadays, if we time machined back.
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04-13-2022, 12:37 PM
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04-13-2022, 12:42 PM
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I think salaries back then was about $20K-$25K/yr ... avg so if house is $200-$250K, it's still 10x of annual income.
Let's say avg income is $100K (according to PB's income level chart), you can get a townhouse for $1.5M so maybe 15x annual income.
Discrepancy is there but not as much as some of you make it out to be, to compensate for like a 12-15% interest rate differential. Anyhow, not to debate this to death. No matter how you look at it, 1% interest to borrow like a million dollars is a pretty damn good deal.
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04-13-2022, 12:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Tapioca | You’ll never fix housing without either A) making all existing home owners substantially wealthier through rezoning etc.
Or B) decimating those same peoples paper gains/retirement at the cost of some sort of welfare state housing for all initiative.
I feel like option A looks better to most govts. And likely is less strenuous on the system as a whole than option B
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04-13-2022, 01:47 PM
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In 1990 the median household income in Canada was 56k, today it’s 80k. The numbers dictate the math I posted.
The average DETACHED home price in van in 1993 was 330k, adjusted for todays dollars that’s around 550k
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04-13-2022, 02:32 PM
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We have quite a few friends who’s parents live in North Van etc. nice areas nice homes where the Dad was a mechanic and the mom was stay at home. Or the Dad was an architect and the mom had like a little side hustle
Now in both those scenarios you couldn’t afford to buy in Chilliwack 
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04-13-2022, 04:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Hondaracer We have quite a few friends who’s parents live in North Van etc. nice areas nice homes where the Dad was a mechanic and the mom was stay at home. Or the Dad was an architect and the mom had like a little side hustle
Now in both those scenarios you couldn’t afford to buy in Chilliwack | But they didn't have the temptation of avocado toast or Starbucks lattes back then. If they did they'd still be renters. /s
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Originally Posted by GLOW they also bought a house for under $200k | Will cash buy a house if it's 12 - 15% interest rate even at $400k 
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I despise the boomer memes about avocado toast and lattes, but there's a kernel of truth to how certain things have become entitlements over the last decade or so.
I don't think I would be surprised to see $1000/month spent on take out and restaurant meals among the undisciplined. Think about the growth in certain services over the past several years - fitness/wellness studios, spas, events, etc. And if you're not travelling at least twice a year on an airplane (pre-COVID), you're not keeping up with your peers.
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