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by sass_muffin 1509 days ago
The thing is I don't think it is bold at all. Housing being overvalued seems perfectly obvious consequence of negative or near-zero interest rates. One side effect of those policies is that the mortgage rates were artificially lowered.

A lot of people buying houses unfortunately don't really look at aggregate home ownership cost and focus (incorrectly) on monthly payments. So, because they can afford the monthly payment, they think they can afford the house. This of course works works until the music stops.