US housing market is overvalued by billions due to ignored flood risk

US housing market is overvalued by billions due to ignored flood risk

(Bloomberg) — US homes in areas prone to floods may be currently overvalued in the range of $121 billion to $237 billion, according to a report  published Thursday in the journal Nature Climate Change. Roughly, that number is derived by looking at how much homes are selling for now and subtracting the estimated average annual losses that they will incur from flooding over…

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