Tag Archives: Market news

Noe Valley Still Goin’ Down?

Posted on March 11, 2010 by Misha

Back in May 2009, I showed that Noe Valley was not immune from the slump in prices affecting the rest of the city, despite suggestions to the contrary from real estate agents, mavens and media. Have things gotten any better?  … Continue reading →

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Case Shiller Chimes in With Good News: US Down only 17%!

Posted on July 29, 2009 by Misha

Case-Shiller published its closely watched indices yesterday.  Hooray! The broadest CS index shows that the rate of decline in the nation’s largest housing markets has reversed in recent months.  Now we’re only going down 16% year over year instead of … Continue reading →

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Absorption R.I.P.

Posted on February 2, 2009 by Misha

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 →

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Revised Absorption Chart, but the results are the same, only worse

Posted on January 30, 2009 by Misha

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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Supply/Demand: Does it predict price? Maybe not.

Posted on January 25, 2009 by Misha

Now hold on there, matie!  Basic economic theory  says more supply than demand, prices will fall, right?  Well take a look at this graph. It shows the absorption rate of single family home listings from January 2006 through December 2008 … Continue reading →

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The View from Space — Part 3: Above California

Posted on December 3, 2008 by Misha

The forecast for the California Housing Market Continue reading →

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Update to Halloween Horror: Did it just get scarier….??

Posted on October 30, 2008 by Misha

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 →

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Horror Headline (just in time for Halloween): SF home prices down 24.8%!!!

Posted on October 27, 2008 by Misha

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 →

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Just How Bad Is It? (Answer: depends)

Posted on October 23, 2008 by Misha

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 →

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San Francisco Condos doing just fine, thank you.

Posted on May 28, 2008 by Misha

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 →

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