This study investigates the relationships between the house price and the banking performance sampling the panel data from 20 countries and their 1,790 commercial banks at the period of 1998-2008. Three proxies of house price, the growth ratio of house price, the house price deviations from fundamentals, and its ratio scaled by house price are used; and three proxies of banking performance, return of assets (ROA), return of equities (ROE), and non-performing loan ratio (NPL), are also measured. Two main findings are as followings. First, the growth rate of the house price shows the non-monotonic linear relationship with the banks asset quality, which is proxy by NPL. Second, the rise of deviation ratio of house price increases the NPL and decreases the profit significantly. This result supports the deviation hypothesis.