MIB: Making the Contrarian Call on Housing, Pre-GFC
What do you do when the head of product management tells you to flip bullish or your job is at risk? Or when a major homebuilding...
Transcript: Ivy Zelman
The transcript from this week’s MIB: Ivy Zelman on Real Estate and Housing-Related Industries is below. You can stream/download...
MIB: Ivy Zelman on Real Estate and Housing-Related Industries
This week, we speak with Ivy Zelman, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Zelman & Associates. She is a “Hall of Fame...
Amazon’s Spheres
Aka Seattle Spheres, these are really quite something. The next RWM offices to be built are going to be built along similar lines to the...
Realtors as a Percentage of Pre-Recession Peak
Zillow: – Half of All U.S. Homes Are More Valuable than Pre-Recession Peak; – The median U.S. home value is $217,300, up 8.3...
Housing Bubble? What Bubble?
As real-estate buyers, lenders, and builders got swept up in speculation before the historic housing bust of 2006-09, prices soared even...
Value of U.S. Residential Land (by County)
Very interesting data set showing the value of land, minus the structures built on it, across the country: “The analysis provides...
MIB: Using Data Visualizations to Explain Housing and Mortgages
Economics is complex; interest rates and real estate especially so. What do you do if you are the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation,...