Before 1983, CPI measured housing inflation by looking at what it cost to own a home (house prices, mortgage, property taxes). After 83,...
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Adjust this! We visited the issue of BLS "Owners Equivalent Rent" in CPI back in May (and several times since). But we...
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The Bloomberg REIT Index, a broad based REIT Index with 160 members, is testing critical support near the 195 level (red and green...
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The Sunday NYT observes the inverse correlation between hot real estate markets and bankruptcy filings. "A NEW bankruptcy law takes...
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Jonathan Miller’s blog Matrix ("Interpreting the Real Estate Economy") has an interesting post (Consumer Reality...
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Interesting chart via PIMCO’s Bill Gross, comparing manufacturing employment with tat of Real Estate agents. Recall we visited a...
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I love beating the WSJ: In Friday’s paper, the article Housing Market Gives Cooling Sign covers many of the issues we touched upon...
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Front page story in yesterday’s WSJ, titled " Housing-Bubble Talk Doesn’t Scare Off Foreigners." Funny thing is,...
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I did a video interview yesterday with Forbes’ online unit (you can see the whole thing here). This is what I look like after...
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One of the odder aspects of the so-called housing bubble phenomenon is how so many pundits have been so self-confident in their...
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