
The Chinese inflated a real estate bubble more than ten times larger than the United States. Bursting this bubble could destabilize the world economy. I recently asked what would happen if the Chinese housing bubble burst. The implications for Coastal California's real estate market is enormous as a crash in Chinese real estate would not just remove a component of local demand, it could turn Chinese buyers into desperate sellers. My sanguine attitude about the ability of lenders to maintain pricing through inventory restriction would change if desperate Chinese sellers began putting must-sell inventory on the market. The problems in China go beyond our little niche in the real estate world. A deflating housing bubble in China could destabilize their…[READ MORE]