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The View from Space — Part 3: Above California
The forecast for the California Housing Market Continue reading
The View from Space — Part 2
More pearls from Ken Rosen and the other big brains who addressed UC Berkeley’s Annual Real Estate and Economics Symposium on Monday: • What to Invest In Now: Rosen and several other commentators say that REITS (publicly traded companies that … Continue reading
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The view from space — Part 1
Ken Rosen is a smart guy. He’s the co-chair of the Fisher Center of Real Estate and Urban Economics at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley and the investment advisor of choice to some of the biggest players … Continue reading
Dataquick vs MLS: why the discrepancies?
In my October 27 blog discussing the Case-Shiller Index, I referred to Bay Area County stats from Dataquick that showed San Francisco’s median prices to be down 12.7% from a year previous (YOY) vs. the 11.36% that I’d quoted in … Continue reading
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Update to Halloween Horror: Did it just get scarier….??
The day after I posted my take on the Case-Shiller Index, they came out with July’s report (they’re always trailing three month averages) showing a continuing decline in the San Francisco MSA. Wait for it: down 27.3% from July 2007. … Continue reading
Horror Headline (just in time for Halloween): SF home prices down 24.8%!!!
Yup, that’s right folks. According to the well-known and well-respected Case-Shiller Index published by Standard and Poor’s, San Francisco home prices in July 2008 were down a whopping 24.8% from a year previous. How can this be, when you read … Continue reading
Cool new blog with an analytical approach
I came across a great post analyzing condo prices in Pacific Heights at TheFrontSteps.com. Source of the article is a new blog Inside SF Real Estate, very much of the same philosophy as I believe in: independent analysis, hard fact, … Continue reading
Just How Bad Is It? (Answer: depends)
I’ve been digging a bit deeper into the raw data that’s used to generate the beautiful graphs you can find here and which I used to generate the MLS District graphs in my blog of a few days ago. So … Continue reading
Big Brochures and Beautiful Pictures
Just back from Brokers’ Tuesday Tour. Decided to concentrate on Noe Valley today. Brochures for even the most modest homes seem to be getting bigger and fancier. Today, I swear I got a brochure that was bigger than the house … Continue reading
What on earth does this chart mean? (Click to make it bigger)
I was wondering how prices in various MLS Districts in San Francisco were doing relative to each other and to San Francisco as a whole so I graphed the monthly median prices of single family homes in all but the … Continue reading