Will a Housing Market Crash Affect Home Depot Stock?
Will the housing market crash again? Maybe. Many aspects of the economy are cyclical, and housing prices do occasionally fall. Is a housing crash imminent? That's harder to answer.
Some have sounded the alarm on housing for good reason. Consider the famous Case-Shiller Home Price Index, an inflation-adjusted metric created by Standard & Poor's tracking housing prices. The index's value was 100 back in the year 2000 and had been close to 100 when applying the index's criteria backward to the 20th century. But since 2000, it has risen above 180 on two occasions. The first time preceded the housing crash of the Great Recession.
The second time the Case-Shiller index exceeded 180 is right now. In reality, it passed the mark way back in 2016, and it's currently around 215. So no need to panic: Crossing 180 doesn't immediately flip a housing-crash switch. It just shows housing prices have gone up a lot. The bigger problem, though, is how much faster home values are growing relative to average income. Consider the data over just the last 10 years.
Source Fool.com
