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DOM Roll Please
A couple of posts ago, we dispensed with Absorption Rate as a good barometer of the market since there appeared to be no correlation between how much inventory was available in relation to sales rates and where median prices were … Continue reading
Absorption R.I.P.
After talking to people about my last post on Absorption Rates and the lack of a correlation between slower absorption and lower median prices (or faster absorption and higher prices), I got the impression that there was some curiosity — … Continue reading
Revised Absorption Chart, but the results are the same, only worse
Thanks, Jean-Claude for making me take a second look at my methodology on my Absorption Chart. I had anticipated your point about the lag between listing dates and sales but had unfortunately gotten the formula backwards in my chart — … Continue reading
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Maybe it’s time to buy that first house….
That’s what New York Times journalist Ron Lieber discusses in Saturday’s Business Section. You can find a copy of the article here. Of course, nobody really knows where the real estate market is headed but Lieber suggests that now could … Continue reading
The View from Space — Part 3: Above California
The forecast for the California Housing Market Continue reading
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
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
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
San Francisco Condos doing just fine, thank you.
Condos often get hit hard in times of real estate turmoil, but that doesn’t seem to be happening in San Francisco — at least for now. This graph shows a 12 month moving average of actual condo sales through March. … Continue reading