Below is an excerpt from a very informative article written by Jeff Nielson on Sprott Money. This is a must read for anyone following my site. Back in 2005-2006, I told friends and family, actually anyone who would listen to me, that housing prices were being artificially inflated and this would end badly. As we all know, the housing market crashed in 2008. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of persons lost their homes through foreclosure. This has been termed as the biggest land grab in history.

In the past couple of years, I have seen the same trend that was happening in 2005-2006. Once again, housing prices are skyrocketing. Because we have not fully recovered globally from the Great Recession, the results this time will be far more catastrophic.

We already saw that having only one buyer in the market meant that real estate prices would go as…