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Why Brazil's property boom looks like a bubble

There are several reasons why we would have expected to have seen a sharp rise in Brazilian house prices over the past five years. But even so the sheer scale of the recent jump in prices is difficult to justify. As things stand, we estimate that the market is overvalued by as much as 50%.

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