What they are saying about The Great Housing Bubble "The Great Housing Bubble is a fantastic resource for anyone looking to understand why home prices fell. The writing has exceptional depth and detail, and it is presented in an engaging and easy-to-understand manner. It is destined to be the standard by which other books on the subject will be measured. It is the first book written after prices peaked, and it is the first in the genre to detail the psychological factors that are arguably more important for understanding the housing bubble. There have been a number of books written while prices were rising that used measures of price relative to historic norms and sounded the alarm of an impending…[READ MORE]

What they are saying about The Great Housing Bubble "A very well-written and thoughtful analysis of what went wrong in the housing world and how we can avoid this problem in the future.  Lawrence Roberts has a great understanding of the subject and does an excellent job communicating his ideas to the reader.” Jim Randel – Best-selling author, Confessions of a Real Estate Entrepreneur What is a Bubble? A financial bubble is a temporary situation where asset prices become elevated beyond any realistic fundamental valuations because the general public believes current pricing is justified by probable future price increases. If this belief is widespread enough to cause significant numbers of people to purchase the asset at inflated prices, then prices will…[READ MORE]

What they are saying about The Great Housing Bubble "…The cover is perhaps the clearest representation of what Roberts' book really is: a clearly-communicated, often satirical, and at some points very stern, no-nonsense account of why home prices soared, fomenting the nation's housing bubble, leaving couples across the nation struggling to stay afloat on their mortgages. …In a market already flooded with books on the housing crisis, The Great Housing Bubble scores points by focusing on explanation and less on inundating a reader with the sort of heavy-handed quantitative analysis that only a few economists can love. While some figures are necessary, the book's message is never bogged down. Instead, Roberts presents multiple facets of the real estate market by…[READ MORE]