Here we go again with all the nonsense reporting of the Case Shiller Index, a 3 month moving average of house sale transactions that took…
Peak Housing reflects not just a credit bubble but Peak Fraud and Peak Suburbia.
Once again pundits are claiming that housing is “finally recovering.” But they’re overlooking three peaks: Peak Housing, Peak Financial Fraud, and Peak Suburbia, all…
The Case Shiller housing price index was released this morning and, as usual, it’s getting lots of media attention. I have no problem with that,…
Professor Robert Shiller, one of the founders of the Case Shiller Index has made recent headlines by stating rather calmly that home prices will likely fall another 10 to 25 percent in the upcoming years. Of course, this can happen either through a…
The S&P/Case Shiller Home Price Indices reported Tuesday are, as usual, so far behind the curve that not only did they miss the “double dip”…
When it comes to home values, Minneapolis has apparently surpassed even Detroit as the nation’s economic basket case.
The Minneapolis area had the worst one-month drop in the resale price of homes (seasonally unadjusted) from December to January of …
So much for “Buy a House…Then Buy Another”…..
The single biggest problem in the U.S. real estate market is simple: There are very few homebuyers.
That seems obvious, but the “buyers’ strike” has caused house prices to drop, along with an …
Lots of interesting data in this Business Insider piece…
Sentiment figures from the American Association of Individual Investors, The National Association of Active Investment Managers and the Investment Company Institute’s mutual fund cash l…
A hidden catastrophe is unfolding in the US housing market. Mainstream media outlets are not telling the story because they are focused on misleading data…
The holy grail of housing market pundits, the Case Shiller Index, reported a 1% month to month gain for the month of July, which is…
