Category Archives: Housing Index

Falling Inventory Has Created a Housing “Pre-Covery,” not “Recovery”

Posted on January 28, 2013 by Jonathan Miller

I was speaking at the New York Real Estate Bar Camp recently and asked the audience what to call the state of housing market right now, since I objected to the use of the word “recovery” and “a period of… Read More

Posted in Economy, Homebuying Process, Housing Index, Language & Jargon | Tagged Case-Shiller, Robert Shiller | 14 Comments

[Case Shiller] Recovery Is Back In Season

Posted on December 27, 2012 by Jonathan Miller

[click to expand chart] Well the frequently maligned but most influential housing metric was published yesterday, the S&P/Case Shiller Home Price Indices and the 20 City index rose 4.3% year-over-year. The only two “regions” to see declines were Chicago and… Read More

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Looking For That Ray – Knight Frank’s Sunshine Index

Posted on December 7, 2012 by Jonathan Miller

[click to open WSJ article] As a followup to my analysis of light on property values, I came across this fun way to look at the market. …real-estate consulting firm Knight Frank looked at 14 warm-weather vacation spots around the… Read More

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NAR Membership Flows With Housing Market

Posted on December 6, 2012 by Jonathan Miller

[click to expand] Membership is very close to falling below the 1M threshold (1,005,838) for the first time since 2003. The rise and fall of NAR membership with the S&P/Case Shiller Home Price Index is a logical trend in a… Read More

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Knight Frank GHPI 3Q12 – Brazil up 15.2%, Greece down 11.7% YOY

Posted on December 5, 2012 by Jonathan Miller

No surprises here. Knight Frank’s Global Home Price Index comprehensive ranking of housing price changes in 55 countries showed Brazil and it’s economic boom at the top of the list. The Brazilians have jump started the Miami housing market nearly… Read More

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[NewYork Fed] Excellent Mapping of Housing’s Recovery Process in Region

Posted on December 4, 2012 by Jonathan Miller

[click to expand] The Federal Reserve has been relying more on CoreLogic housing data these days, rather than Case Shiller or NAR and I’m down with that. The New York Fed has put the CoreLogic data for New York, Connecticut… Read More

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[WSJ] The Crazy 8: Comparing Results of National Home Price Indices

Posted on June 9, 2012 by Jonathan Miller

Matthew Strozier over at WSJ with Column Five (a large producer of infographics) presented an interesting side by side of 8 national housing indices. All but one index shows a year over year decline in housing. Trulia’s new Price Monitor… Read More

Posted in Housing Index, Market Reports (US) | Tagged Case-Shiller, FNC, WSJ | 1 Comment

[Knight Frank] Q1 2012 Global House Price Index: Europe Is A Problem

Posted on June 5, 2012 by Jonathan Miller

Here’s a great research piece from Knight Frank on the state of housing in many of the world’s cities. South America is dominating other regions in market performance right now. Canada shows strength (all the HGTV shows seem to be… Read More

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Podcasts

09/23/2012

[The Housing Helix Podcast] Barry Ritholtz Part 2

Video

05/13/2013

Bloomberg Surveillence TV with Tom Keene, Sara Eisen and Adam Davidson

Had a fun interview with Tom and Sara this morning on the always MUST watch/listen Bloomberg Surveillance. We talked housing, rentals, vacancy and inventory. An added bonus was the addition of Adam Davidson – co-founder and co-host of Planet Money... Read More