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Old 24.04.2012, 18:45
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Re: Thinking about buying. Good/bad idea with a housing bubble?

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Yeah, there will be a popular vote on this in June IIRC... but to be frank, I believe this would be counter-productive. Prices are not driven by construction costs but rather by temporal availability of apparent "cheap" financing. More encouragement would just drive prices up even further. Federal Council rather wants to do the opposite - increase the % of "hard" down-payment by restricting access to 2nd pillar funds.
Did this "savings account" thing just get voted last time?
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Re: Thinking about buying. Good/bad idea with a housing bubble?

Bad idea. Put your money in gold or platinum and live in a tent.
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Old 24.04.2012, 19:17
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Bad idea. Put your money in gold or platinum and live in a tent.
Or a trailer home. That's what I'm looking for. Any leads send my way.
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Old 24.04.2012, 19:23
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Re: Thinking about buying. Good/bad idea with a housing bubble?

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Or a trailer home. That's what I'm looking for. Any leads send my way.
Har har har. You guys are funny. After all the crap we are going through with neubau... we'll wish we were in a tent at the end.

Sad thing is, EF warned me neubau is horrible this way. *pushes forward anyways*
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Har har har. You guys are funny.
I'm actually serious about the trailer home (ie, long rectangular studio loft) .... DH, not so much!
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Re: Thinking about buying. Good/bad idea with a housing bubble?

Latest article from UBS on the Real Estate Bubble

http://www.ubs.com/global/en/wealth_...e-Index-EN.pdf

The number of annual rents required to purchase a home is now 28.0 (27.6 in the previous quarter). We have not seen this level since shortly before the peak of the last real estate bubble in 1989.

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Re: Thinking about buying. Good/bad idea with a housing bubble?

It depends on why you want to buy, if you are looking from an investment point of view, analyzing the bubble does make sense.

we have bought an apartment too, if everything goes as planned we would be moving in few months time,
It made sense to us as:
we were looking for a minimum of 4 rooms apartment around Zurich. Not older than 5 years to have wasching machine and modern amenities with in. On the ground floor to have a garden. Not so far from the public transport, don't want to rely on my driving skills every time .
But the rent is crazy at the moment a minimum of 3.5 k and there is always a queue of tenants applying.

The same house would be around 1.8k to 2k chf including some sinking fund kept aside.
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