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title: Slowdown in International Housing Markets Does Not Portend a Real Estate Market “Crash”
description: Global housing markets, increasingly moving in tandem, are experiencing a slowdown driven by trade tensions, political unrest and issues of affordability.
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# [Slowdown in International Housing Markets Does Not Portend a Real Estate Market “Crash”](https://www.nationalinvestornetwork.com/financials/slowdown-in-international-housing-markets-does-not-portend-a-real-estate-market-crash)

 Written by [Jeff Mindham](https://www.nationalinvestornetwork.com/financials/author/jeff-mindham) | Jan 29, 2020 1:36:54 AM

Global housing markets, increasingly moving in tandem, are experiencing a [slowdown driven by trade tensions](https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-risk-to-world-economy-synchronized-housing-slowdown-11580121001), political unrest and issues of affordability. In a study conducted by the Dallas Federal Reserve of 23-countries, growth during the 3rd quarter of 2019 was only 1.8% from the year before, down from 4.3% in 2016.

Most housing economists do not believe this slowdown is a lead-up to another financial crash as Enrique Martinez-Garcia, an economist at the Dallas Federal Reserve noted, “The housing market is not giving us red signals as it did (in 2007).”

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