The Economist probably wrote the best Housing Bubble article of any publication in June of 2005. It was titled “In Come The Waves” Here is the intro

The global housing boom
Jun 16th 2005
From The Economist print edition

NEVER before have real house prices risen so fast, for so long, in so many countries. Property markets have been frothing from America, Britain and Australia to France, Spain and China. Rising property prices helped to prop up the world economy after the stockmarket bubble burst in 2000.…

I used to have the link but you have to be a subscriber now. Many if not most of their predictions are coming true.