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October 2024 New Home Sales
Did high mortgage rates finally hit the new home market?!
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Kevin Erdmann
The Housing Shortage by Metro Area
Here is an estimate of the number of homes each major metropolitan area is short.
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Renters and the mortgage crackdown aftermath
Though it is counterintuitive, renters rank high among the victims of the 2008 mortgage crackdown.
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October 2024 Residential Construction
A decade ago, when I started researching housing, it seemed like every week I would find some new surprising detail about how empirically confused the…
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Follow Up to Case-Shiller & Filtering
For subscribers
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Case-Shiller and Filtering
Case-Shiller has a home price index going back more than a century.
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October 2024 Inflation and Housing
Inflation is now a full 27 months into a clear and sharp return to a 2% trend path, though you wouldn’t know it from the reporting on it.
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October 2024 Erdmann Housing Tracker Update
Zillow continues to estimate moderately rising rents, with prices rising roughly in the same proportion to rents as they had before Covid.
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An interesting election parallel
Jonah Freemark shared this chart:
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What Homes Are Missing (by Tenure)?
Previously, I have estimated the deviation in the trend of adults per home, trends in homeownership, and trends in the types of homes being constructed…
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Rent inflation since Covid
I was all set to do a post-election post on “The Housing Theory of Everything”.
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National Housing Crisis Task Force
I would like to direct your attention to a new advocacy group.
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