Posts filed under “Real Estate”

Rising & Falling Home Prices in the USA

Click to enlarge
Map

~~~

Chart

 

I am a sucker for a good piece of digital media, and CoreLogic hits me right in the sweet spot.

The map and chart above provide some great context on the state of the Housing market — were we have been, how silly things got circa early 2000s, how bad they got circa mid-to-late 2000s, and the recent improvements.

 

 

Source:
Case-Shiller Indexes Report
Dave Hurt and Brian Gunn
CoreLogic, May 2013
https://www.corelogic.com/about-us/researchtrends/corelogic-case-shiller-indexes.aspx

Category: Real Estate, Think Tank

China’s ‘ghost mall’

Category: Economy, Real Estate, Video

The Daily Show: Residential Evil

The Mortgage Electronic Registration System is like a key party, but instead of f**king your wife, they lose track of the deed to your house.

Read More

Category: Foreclosures, Real Estate, Really, really bad calls, Video

Which is a Better Inflation Hedge, Gold or Houses?

Source: Bloomberg’s Chart of the Day, Federal Housing Finance Agency     Here is something I never would have guessed at, via Dave Wilson of Bloomberg: If you want to be hedged against the risk of a pickup in inflation, you would be better off buying houses than gold. That’s according to Michael Hartnett, chief…Read More

Category: Gold & Precious Metals, Inflation, Real Estate

Why Own a Home? (Lots of Reasons)

  Interesting Gallup Poll on the various reasons homeowners and prospective homeowners state as why they want to own a home. Financial reasons: -good investment that appreciates in value (16%) -building equity / good credit (12%) -equate renting with “throwing money away” (12%) -it’s cheaper or more cost effective (11%) -financial security (9%) -tax deductions…Read More

Category: Psychology, Real Estate

Where Housing Is Headed

Nice set of various ways to see Real Estate from WSJ:

click for interactive graphic
re wsj past due
Video After the jump

Read More

Category: Real Estate, Video

Commercial Real Estate and Low Interest Rates

Category: Credit, Real Estate, Think Tank

Case Shiller: Home Prices Rise in February 2013

Data through February 2013 showed average home prices increased 8.6% and 9.3% for the 10- and 20-City Composites in the 12 months ending in February 2013.

For data junkies, you can access more than 26 years of history for these series in full by going to
homeprice.spindices.com. Additional content on the housing market may also be found on S&P Dow Jones Indices’ housing blog: housingviews.com.

 

 

S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices
Chart

 

Read More

Category: Real Estate

From a longstanding Housing analyst: After reading Gretchen Morganson’s article on the front page of the business section last week (“Note to New S.E.C. Chief: The Clock Is Ticking“) we are confronted with a massive potential legacy loan fraud at SunTrust Bank against Fannie Mae — it seems to me that this is very similar…Read More

Category: Credit, Legal, Real Estate, Think Tank

From a longstanding Housing analyst: After reading Gretchen Morganson’s article on the front page of the business section last week (“Note to New S.E.C. Chief: The Clock Is Ticking“) we are confronted with a massive potential legacy loan fraud at SunTrust Bank against Fannie Mae — it seems to me that this is very similar…Read More

Category: Credit, Legal, Real Estate, Think Tank