A warning from US economist Robert Shiller about the recent sharp rise in Brazilian house prices has revived fears of a property bubble in Latin America’s largest economy. Our position remains that, while there are several reasons why we would have expected prices to have risen in recent years, the sheer scale of the increase is difficult to justify. The market may be overvalued by as much as 50%.
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