Both the US and the UK have shortages that have driven up home prices, making it really hard for people to afford one.

美国和英国都有住房短缺现象，这推高了房价，让人们很难负担得起。

Overconfidence threatens to slow the fall in house prices, making it even harder to sell the 700,000 new homes left by the housing bubble that pitched Spain into recession.

过分的自负预示着房价下调将会变慢，这让由房地产泡沫遗留下来的70万余套房屋更难售出，这也是导致西班牙经济衰退的主要原因。

They say the Fed intervened in markets to boost stock prices, making bubbles, like the ones that helped create the crisis in the first place, more likely.

他们说，美联储干预市场以提振股价，从而更有可能产生泡沫， 就像最初帮助制造危机的那些泡沫一样。

And moreover, California has the second highest average real estate prices of any state in the country making the cost of purchasing and acquiring land for the rail to traverse prohibitively expensive.

此外，加利福尼亚州的平均房地产价格在全国各州中排名第二，这使得购买和获得铁路用地的成本高得令人望而却步。