Abstract
Home-price indexes for several metropolitan areas show real prices well above their pre-Great Recession level. Further, CoreLogic’s Market Conditions Indicator has identified more than one-third of metropolitan areas as possibly overvalued, the highest share in a rising price environment since 2003 and raising concerns of an upcoming national valuation bubble. This article presents four indicators to monitor overvaluation tendencies for metropolitan areas: price-to-income ratio, price-to-rent ratio, mortgage payment-to-rent ratio, and home flipping activity. The first three metrics measure overvaluation, while the fourth measures speculative fervor. Taken together, if multiple metrics indicate overvaluation, coupled with a surge in speculative investment, then there is a greater risk of a future price decline. These metrics indicate that there is little risk of a national price bubble in 2018, but parts of southern California, southern Florida, and the Puget Sound area do have heightened overvaluation risk.
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