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Real Home Prices Down 15% in Seattle in 1 Year According to Latest Case Shiller Home Price Index Data
Note. March 2023 data is the latest available from Case-Shiller as I write this on May 30, 2023. The data is a 3-month moving average so what they call…
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Chris Joye on House Prices: "It looks like a dead cat bounce"
Chris Joye, the co-founder and portfolio manager at Coolabah Capital in Australia, is known for his often contrarian but often accurate analyses. Let’s…
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Ivy Zelman: "I Think We’re at a Peak"
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A Fundamental Reason House Prices Will Fall This Fall
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Ivy Zelman Quotes from New Interview
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The Volatility Mismatch Theory of Housing Supply and Demand, and House Price Instability
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80% of Home Price Appreciation Since 1990 Was Due To Falling Mortgage Interest Rates?
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U.S. Has 3rd LOWEST Percentage Of Households That Own Homes Free and Clear, Without Mortgages
[An earlier version of this piece appeared in Forbes.com.] The U.S. is a mortgage-ownership society, not a home-ownership society. A 2022 OECD study of…
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Real San Francisco House Prices Down 10% in 1 Year
Note. December 2022 data is the latest available from Case-Shiller as I write this on February 28, 2023. The data is a 3-month moving average so what…
Congress Could Have Prevented 500,000 Foreclosures During The Great Recession But Chickened Out
[An earlier version of this piece appeared in Forbes.com.] The proposal passed the House but failed in the Senate in 2009. The Obama administration said…
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NEW Graph Shows Price Changes by Month - Latest Case-Shiller Home Price Graphs
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The Internet Made The Housing Market Less Rational
Today, we have many times more real estate information than last cycle... Did all the information we’ve had in recent years about the real estate market…
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The Movie "It’s A Wonderful Life" & The Weird History Of "Building & Loans" In Real Life
[An earlier version of this piece appeared in Forbes.com in December 2021.] “It’s a Wonderful Life” is a great movie but what the heck is a “Building…
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Real, Inflation-Adjusted House Prices in San Francisco DOWN 6% from a Year Ago
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