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Sweden braces for fallout from property slump*SBB, landlord with public property, at centre of fallout*Minister says ready to act if more 'accidents'*Swedish house prices drop by a fifthSTOCKHOLM/FRANKFURT, June 16 (Reuters) - Sweden's government is ready to step in to stem the fallout from a property rout if tumbling prices cause a wider crisis - a potential harbinger of trouble across Europe.High debts, rising interest rates and a wilting economy has produced a toxic cocktail for Sweden's commercial property companies, with several cut to junk by rating agencies.House prices are also down by around one-fifth since their March 2022 peak, according to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), reflecting soaring mortgage costs.Swedish Financial Markets Minister Niklas Wykman told Reuters the state has the financial clout to prevent a property market plunge from engulfing the country, one of Europe's wealthiest, and its banks."There is a preparedness to act," he said."If ... more accidents happen ... or ... new risks are revealed ... or threats to the financial system arise, then the most important thing from a stability perspective is to have a broad tool box ... which the state can use."Concerns about the property sector are already weighing on the currency, while investors are wondering if Sweden is only the first domino to fall in Europe.Sweden and Germany are among the worst affected by a widening property slump on the continent, according to Eurostat.Earlier this week, the OECD warned of 'financial stability risks' in Sweden, pointing to banks' heavy lending to property companies and homeowners, most of whom have floating-rate mortgages that move in lock-step with rising interest rates.Although Wykman did not outline how his government could act and emphasised that banks were "profitable and stable", his comments underscore growing worry in Stockholm.In the early 1990s, the collapse of a Swedish housing bubble triggered the nationalisation of two banks, the bailout of a third and a devaluation of the Swedish crown, plunging the country into a deep recession."It is clear that Sweden has low government debt and the ability to react if a crisis ... were to develop," said Wykman.SCRAMBLEProperty is the lynchpin of the Swedish economy, making up 80% of household debt. Weighed down by home loans, Swedes are twice as heavily indebted as Germans or Italians.Commercial real estate makes up 18% of bank loans, according to the OECD, more than three times the level in Spain or Ireland.Swedish officials are worried that banks could compound property companies' troubled by cutting credit, triggering firesales that would further drag down the market.One of Sweden's biggest landlords, SBB (SBBb.ST), is at the centre of the spiral. It is scrambling to salvage its finances after recently seeing its credit rating downgraded to junk.The company was founded by a former social democrat politician, Ilija Batljan, who built up vast debts, buying public property including social housing, government offices, schools, hospitals, police stations and an army facility.Hit by soaring interest rates that forced the company to cancel its dividend and scrap a share issue, SBB is now hunting for a buyer of all or parts of its business after Batljan was forced to step down.SBB had 81 billion Swedish crowns ($7.6 billion) of debt as of March, with around 15% of it maturing within one year.The company told Reuters it had taken steps to strengthen its liquidity position, including selling a stake in a construction firm.But SBB's problems, which some analysts blame in part for Sweden's sinking currency, are causing alarm in Stockholm. Its ownership of swathes of public property, puts a question mark over the provision of government services.Coupled with falling property prices and rising mortgage costs, the crisis also threatens a voter backlash against a government already under pressure over a rising tide of gang violence.Financial markets minister Wykman said he had held discussions with banks, property companies and investors about the entire commercial property market.He later told parliament that while he was prepared to act to preserve financial stability, he would not "meddle" or "nationalise for the sake of nationalising", rejecting calls by some lawmakers to intervene in commercial property.This week, analysts at JP Morgan said big banks in Sweden, which had 1 trillion Swedish crowns of property exposure, were 'ill-prepared' for losses.The four main banks in Sweden played down any threat. Swedbank (SWEDa.ST) told Reuters it had been careful in lending. Finland's Nordea (NDAFI.HE) said its loans were strong and well diversified.SEB (SEBa.ST) said it was "strong" and its credit quality "robust". Handelsbanken (SHBa.ST) referred to a recent presentation, where it said that its property lending was conservative and diversified."When it comes to the commercial property side, clearly there are contagion risks," Wykman said, without singling out individual companies."It could be that one or more company sells assets. It leads to other companies having to revalue assets and that can, in turn, mean that more companies need to make changes."
Housing slowdown leads to first annual drop in US homeowner equity since 2012For the first time in more than a decade, the average U.S. homeowner with a mortgage has less home equity than they did a year earlier.Among the roughly 63% of U.S. homes with a mortgage, average homeowner equity per borrower was $274,070 in the first quarter, down 1.9% from the same quarter last year, according to real estate data tracker CoreLogic.The last time average homeowner equity fell year-over-year was in the first quarter of 2012, when the housing market was still regaining its footing after the mortgage meltdown and ensuing foreclosure crisis that helped trigger the Great Recession.All told, U.S. homeowners with a mortgage lost a combined $108.4 billion in home equity between the first quarter of last year and the first three months of 2023, a drop of 0.7%, according to CoreLogic.Homeowner equity, which represents the current value of the property minus what’s still owed on the mortgage, tends to rise and fall along with home prices.(...)
...Entrando más en detalle, diría que al haber menos gente para los mismos recursos (porque gracias a la tecnología podemos producir prácticamente lo mismo con la mitad de mano de obra que a principios de siglo), la abundancia empuja a la deflación.Por donde no paso es por "al haber menos demografía, los hogares invertirán más en vivienda". ¿De qué chistera se sacan ese razonamiento? Si hay menos gente, ¿para qué carajo se iba a invertir más en vivienda?
[La mancha de aceite se expande.https://www.corelogic.com/intelligence/homeowner-equity-insights-q1-2023/ «Algo huele a podrido en Dinamarca».]
Toward 1300, however, the brilliance of the French kingdom began to tarnish. The golden age turned into a gilded age. While elite opulence continued unabated, the living conditions of common people deteriorated. The root cause of popular immiseration was the massive population boom in Western Europe in the two centuries before 1300. If in 1100 there were around six million people inhabiting the territory within the modern borders of France, two centuries later the population more than tripled, exceeding twenty million. Population explosion overwhelmed the capacity of the medieval economy to provide land for peasants, jobs for workers, and food for all. The majority of the population lived on the edge of starvation, and a series of crop failures and livestock epidemics between 1315 and 1322 tipped the system over the edge. By 1325, the population of France was 10–15 percent below the peak it reached in 1300. Then came the Black Death, killing between one-quarter and one-half of the population. By the end of the fourteenth century, the population of France collapsed to ten million—half of what it was in 1300. As though millions of deaths were not enough, the demographic catastrophe had another, more subtle but nevertheless devastating effect on social stability by making the social pyramid unsustainably top-heavy. After 1250, the number of nobles increased even faster than that of the general population, because their economic position was better than that of the commoners. In fact, popular immiseration benefited the elites, who profited from high land rents, low wages, and high food prices. In other words, massive overpopulation during the thirteenth century created a wealth pump that enriched landowners at the expense of peasants.Turchin, Peter . End Times . Penguin Books Ltd. Edición de Kindle.
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Sweden braces for fallout from property slump