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Hampton Year End Sales And Price Spike, Fiscal Cliff Style

Posted on January 29, 2013 by Jonathan Miller

[click to read article (subscr)] I thought the chart created by the WSJ using our data nicely illustrated the end of year spike in sales and prices at the end of the 2012, influenced by the notion that taxes, whatever… Read More

Posted in Hamptons/North Fork | Tagged chart, Josh Barbanel, WSJ | Leave a comment

Divorce Valuations: Appraiserville Meets Splitsville

Posted on December 1, 2012 by Jonathan Miller

In this week’s WSJ Mansion section there was a nice write up by Alyssa Abkowitz about the appraisal process during a divorce: Appraisers in Splitsville. Our firm does a lot of this type of consulting and we find working with… Read More

Posted in Appraisals/Appraiser, In The Media, Legal | Tagged Divorce, WSJ | Leave a comment

Get Down With It: Falling Mortgage Rates Are Not Creating Housing Sales

Posted on November 27, 2012 by Jonathan Miller

Inspired by my analysis of yesterday’s WSJ article, I thought I’d explore the effectiveness of low mortgage rates in getting the housing market going. I matched year-to-date sales volume where a mortgage was used and mortgage rates broken out by… Read More

Posted in Mortgage | Tagged chart, conforming, FNC, jumbo, WSJ | 4 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

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