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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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April 2023
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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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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February 2023
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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December 2022
November 2022
Real, Inflation-Adjusted House Prices in San Francisco DOWN 6% from a Year Ago
Case-Shiller graphs
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Ivy Zelman Quotes from New Interview
I hadn’t seen anything from Ivy Zelman online in a while so was very happy to see this. Ted Oakley of Oxbox Advisors interviewed Ivy Zelman, CEO of…
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A Housing Bust Will Hurt Baby Boomers Too, Not Just Millennials (Full Article)
[An earlier version of this piece appeared in Forbes.com.] Our crazy, volatile house prices hurt first-home buyers who buy near the top of the market…
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"A Housing Crash Will Hurt Baby Boomers Too, Not Just Millennials" – My Latest on Forbes .com
A Housing Crash Will Hurt Baby Boomers Too, Not Just Millennials “Our crazy, volatile house prices hurt first-home buyers who buy near the top of the…
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