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US Housing Among Most Attractive Assets: Marc Faber

US Housing Among Most Attractive Assets: Marc Faber

By: Deepanshu Bagchee Supervising Digital Editor, CNBC Asia
The housing market in the south of the United States is among the most attractive asset classes in the world, Marc Faber, the editor of the Gloom Boom & Doom Report, told CNBC on Friday, because while homebuilder stocks had rallied, property prices hadn’t moved much.

“If you look at the supply of homes, new construction, and you compare it to immigration into the United States, to the growth of the population, then these (southern) markets are very attractive from a longer term perspective,” Faber told Bernie Lo on CNBC

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