Category Archives: Market Reports (US)

[WSJ Live] InflationWatch: Why Manhattan is a “Bargain”

Posted on February 1, 2013 by Jonathan Miller

Josh Barbanel at the Wall Street Journal took the results of our just released Elliman Report: The Manhattan Decade 2003-2012 and adjusted them for inflation – showing that housing prices are as affordable as they were in 2004. Here’s his… Read More

Posted in Manhattan, Market Reports (US) | Tagged Decade, Elliman Report, video, Wall Street Journal, WSJ Live | 3 Comments

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

Posted in Brokers, Housing Index, Market Reports (US) | Tagged Case-Shiller, chart, National Association of Realtors | Leave a comment

[Breaking News] CNN Gives Housing Followers Heart Attack, Case Shiller Up 1.2% YOY

Posted on September 25, 2012 by Jonathan Miller

[click to open report] I like this index chart from the report (2nd chart presented in their report) better than the more commonly used % based chart (1st chart presented in their report) because it provides better context. The recent… Read More

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[In The Media] BeastTV – The Number with Dan Gross 8-29-12

Posted on August 29, 2012 by Jonathan Miller

Got to talk housing with my friend Dan Gross, the Global Business Editor at Newsweek & The Daily Beast on his BeastTV segment “The Number”: THE NUMBER: 101.7 That’s the pending home sales index from the National Association of Realtors,… Read More

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Low Housing Inventory Is NOT A Sign of Housing Recovery

Posted on July 9, 2012 by Jonathan Miller

I wrote “The Decline In Inventory Right Now is NOT a Good Sign” back in February, but there has been a more refined discussion about low inventory recently. Back then my orientation was more about the “robo-signing” scandal causing a… Read More

Posted in Foreclosure, Market Reports (US) | Tagged David Rosenberg, Stan Humphries | 9 Comments

[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

Visualizing US Distressed Sales – Katrina Edition

Posted on June 7, 2012 by Jonathan Miller

The WSJ presented a series of charts on US distressed properties based on information from the St. Louis Fed (most proficient data generators of all Fed banks) and LPS. Here are the first and last maps of the series. To… Read More

Posted in Boom Bubble Bust, Foreclosure, Market Reports (US) | Tagged Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Hurricane Katrina | Leave a comment

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