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Home Prices Surging 13 Times High than Wages. Don't Blame Investors

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In many markets, the housing recovery has "largely been driven over the last two years by buyers who are not as constrained by incomes -- namely the institutional investors coming in and buying up properties as rentals,  and international buyers coming in and buying, often with cash," Daren Blomquist, vice president at RealtyTrac and author of the report, said in an interview. 

For demand from traditional buyers to improve, "either wages are going to need to go up or prices are going to need to at least flatten out and wait for wages to catch up," he said. "You might say the third alternative is interest rates go down so you give people more buying power with their wages, but interest rates are about as low as they can go." READ MORE

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-26/u-s-home-prices-are-surging-13-times-faster-than-wages?hootPostID=a826852dcd6253cf989cd9c107d6e9b1

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