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Housing-Market / Global Housing Markets Sep 29, 2017 - 06:21 PM GMT

By: Rodney_Johnson

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There’s an easy way to identify the cities with the big real estate bubbles. Just find out where the richest citizens live!

Back in late 2016, writer Peter Reegh put together a list of the 15 cities based on population of the wealthiest citizens, which was published on therichest.com. These same 15 cities remain at the top of this list today (only now more inflated than a year ago), allowing us to immediately know what areas to avoid.


And, once real estate prices have crashed, which I expect they will begin to do sooner rather than later, we’ll have a list of 15 places to find bargain properties!

Here they are, from the “poorest” of the rich to the richest…

15. Istanbul

Not everyone would have guessed this, but it’s the most classic and beautiful city on the strategic cusp of Europe and the Middle East. And, at last count, it’s home to 24 billionaires, which is more than what Tokyo or Seoul has.

14. Tokyo

Tokyo is the perfect example of what happens when a major bubble bursts. The richest people lose the most because they dominate the bubbly financial assets from real estate to stocks. Tokyo’s massive wealth decline shows the downside risk of these richest and most expensive cities.

At its height in 1989, Tokyo would have taken first or second place on this list. It’s only at #14 now, with just 18 billionaires calling it home.

13. Chicago

Chicago is the third-largest city in the U.S., and it’s the financial capital for the commodity markets and the Midwest, so it’s not surprising that it’s on this list.

12. Paris

Perhaps the most classic city in Europe, Paris has bubbly real estate prices to match. It is home to 22 billionaires, less than half that of London. But, then again, London is the financial capital of Europe!

11. Seoul

Seoul is more beautiful and sophisticated than I expected, and it’s home to 30 billionaires.

10. Mumbai

The leading-edge and largest city in India, Mumbai is the country’s financial hub and home to Bollywood. It has 30 billionaires, 60% as many as Beijing. Not bad for a country with less than half the average incomes of China.

It’s also the location of a 27-story, billion-dollar home right downtown.

9. Boston

Boston’s presence on this list is unsurprising. After all, it’s home to very strong finance and healthcare companies.

8. Washington, D.C.

Also, not a stunner, Washington, D.C., is the government center of the U.S., just like Beijing is to China.

7. Beijing

Beijing is the richest city in mainland China, with 50 billionaires. As expected, it’s one of the most overvalued cities in China after Hong Kong.

6. Moscow

This was a bit of a surprise, but it attests to how much wealth and power the 10,000 oligarchs in Russia (and Putin) have amassed.

5. Los Angeles

Compared to New York’s 1 million wealthy, Los Angeles only has 350,000 rich people. But its total wealth is estimated at $1.3 trillion, which is more than what San Francisco boasts. But, then again, San Francisco is more overvalued, as its overall ranking suggests.

4. London

London has the third-highest number of billionaires, 50 of them, and is a magnet for Middle Eastern and Russian investors.

3. San Francisco

There may not be as many billionaires in The City by the Bay as L.A. – just 23 – and it has only $1 trillion in wealth, but San Francisco is the second-bubbliest city in the U.S. compared to average or median incomes.

2. Hong Kong

The Jewel of the Orient has the second-greatest number of billionaires – 60 of them. And its real estate bubble is even greater than New York’s when compared to average or median incomes. It has the highest price-to-income ratios in the world today.

In Hong Kong the rich drive up the cost of living more than anywhere else for the everyday person. And, yes, it is now offering 61-square-foot “closet” condos to compensate.

1. New York

The Big Apple is home to 1 million wealthy citizens and 80 billionaires, dwarfing any other city. It has a total estimated wealth of $3.5 trillion.

The overvaluation in these top global cities is roughly in the order of this ranking. I have been warning rich people in these cities that these paragons of wealth will fall the hardest, and that would include Silicon Valley.

Yet almost all I talk to think that because these cities are so attractive and have such rich citizens, they can’t fall even a little…

History says the exact opposite.

During the Great Depression, Manhattan, then also the #1 “city,” fell the most of any and took the longest to recover by far.

My advice in these uber-cities: RENT, DON’T OWN!

Harry

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Harry studied economics in college in the ’70s, but found it vague and inconclusive. He became so disillusioned by the state of the profession that he turned his back on it. Instead, he threw himself into the burgeoning New Science of Finance, which married economic research and market research and encompassed identifying and studying demographic trends, business cycles, consumers’ purchasing power and many, many other trends that empowered him to forecast economic and market changes.

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