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    Tuesday, March 11, 2008 February Resale Data Quasi-Rodeo (6 clicks)
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March 11, 2008 at 2:29 pm ET Because I'm travelling I am just going to present some charts this month with a minimum of editorializing. Hardly worthy of the "rodeo" sobriquet, I admit, but I am comfortable leaving in the analysis in ... (more) Friday, March 7, 2008 A February Beatdown for the Size-Adjusted Median (10 clicks)
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March 7, 2008 at 8:55 pm ET Both median-based price indicators were thoroughly abused last month. Between January and February, the size-adjusted median price declined 5.7 percent for single family homes and 7.7 percent for condos. That's in one month, friends. Brutal. ... (more) Tuesday, March 4, 2008 This Just In: San Diego Homes are Overpriced (4 clicks)
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March 4, 2008 at 1:04 pm ET I've updated long-term charts of the ratios of San Diego home prices to rents and incomes:
read more ... (more) Sunday, March 2, 2008 Vaya Con Monos (6 clicks)
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March 2, 2008 at 9:19 pm ET This Wednesday I will be embarking on a two-week trip out of the country. (To Uruguay, for those curious, where my father grew up and where his extended family still resides). I am going to ... (more) Friday, February 29, 2008 Job Growth Not What it Used to Be (6 clicks)
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February 29, 2008 at 7:40 pm ET Last month I noted that despite local data points and expert opinions pointing to a slowdown in the retail industry, the California Employment Development Department reported that retail industry employment was growing at a fairly ... (more) Tuesday, February 26, 2008 From Piggington's Econo-Almanac - view blog entries - visit this blog
February 26, 2008 at 9:26 pm ET The Case-Shiller HPI numbers for December were released today. The low-, mid-, and high-priced tiers were respectively down 3.8%, 3.3%, and 3.1% from the prior month. The aggregate index was down 3.4%. The pace ... (more) Friday, February 22, 2008 Another Angle on Job Growth (13 clicks)
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February 22, 2008 at 8:18 pm ET Jon Lansner, proprietor of the excellent Orange County Register real estate blog, pointed me at an alternate source of local job data after reading my recent article questioning the accuracy of the monthly BLS/EDD employment ... (more) Wednesday, February 20, 2008 Foreclosure Chart Extravaganza: January 2008 (2 clicks)
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February 20, 2008 at 5:02 pm ET Over at VoiceofSanDiego.org, I just put up a piece on the January 2008 sales-per-default data. Conclusion: if potential must-sell housing supply was overwhelming demand back in the protracted downturn of the 1990s, it is now ... (more) Tuesday, February 19, 2008 Random Observations on a Historical Chart (3 clicks)
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February 19, 2008 at 3:32 pm ET I've been updating the FAQ list and I thought it would be interesting to denote the start of the Econo-Almanac on a chart of home valuations (ie, CPI-adjusted prices) and sales. I used the beginning ... (more) Saturday, February 16, 2008 January Resale Housing Data Rodeo (13 clicks)
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February 16, 2008 at 4:51 pm ET Well, better late than never, I guess, for this month's resale data roundup.
We already saw that the size-adjusted median held up pretty well in comparison to the drubbings inflicted in recent months. It was ... (more) Tuesday, February 12, 2008 January Resale Price Preview (2 clicks)
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February 12, 2008 at 3:44 pm ET Howdy all -- over at voiceofsandiego.org I've got a brief look at the last month's resale price data. The January data rodeo will be up here later this week.
... (more) Monday, February 11, 2008 From Piggington's Econo-Almanac - view blog entries - visit this blog
February 11, 2008 at 9:18 pm ET My old pal Ramsey Su and is back with an analysis of the recent REO auctions held here in San Diego by REDC. He's drawn some very interesting conclusions based on the info he's been ... (more) Saturday, February 9, 2008 From Piggington's Econo-Almanac - view blog entries - visit this blog
February 9, 2008 at 2:15 pm ET USC is performing a study on the credibility of blogs vs. the mainstream media when it comes to the Southern California real estate market. If you have an opinion on the topic, please help out ... (more) Friday, February 8, 2008 January's Foreclosure Explosion (5 clicks)
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February 8, 2008 at 4:21 pm ET In the prior foreclosure writeup, I opined that the high rate of December foreclosures was deceiving because it likely represented a period of catch-up from November's abnormally low levels.
I guess I was wrong, because ... (more) Thursday, February 7, 2008 Brief Technical Note (5 clicks)
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February 7, 2008 at 2:40 pm ET I installed a new caching mechanism yesterday to improve site performance. As a result, some authenticated users keep being shown the "anonymous" pages as if they were not logged in. If this is happening to ... (more) Wednesday, February 6, 2008 High-Risk Reset Trends (7 clicks)
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February 6, 2008 at 9:48 pm ET A couple of readers responded to my prior article about the study on local mortgage resets to ask how the projected 2008 resets stacked up against those of 2007. The study's primary author, Joseph Galascione, ... (more) Tuesday, February 5, 2008 Put On your Data Mining Helmets (3 clicks)
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February 5, 2008 at 11:35 pm ET As regular Piggs know, I routinely chart out either the size-adjusted median home sale price (which is timely, but not too accurate) or the Case-Shiller home price index (which is more accurate, but not very ... (more) Saturday, February 2, 2008 Yet More Foreclosures in the Pipeline (12 clicks)
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February 2, 2008 at 5:59 pm ET I got a chance to chat with Joseph Galascione, the real estate broker who was mentioned in the San Diego Daily Transcript a couple weeks back as having authored what appeared to be an interesting ... (more) Wednesday, January 30, 2008 November Case-Shiller HPI Gets Spanked (4 clicks)
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January 30, 2008 at 12:16 am ET The Case-Shiller HPI for November (which includes home sales from September, October, and November) took a veritable beating. Prices for the high tier held up best, as usual, falling by 1.8% from the prior month. ... (more) Friday, January 25, 2008 BailoutWatch: Lower Rates for Everyone! (7 clicks)
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January 25, 2008 at 2:43 pm ET Yesterday it was announced that Congress and the White House had come to an agreement on an economic stimulus package that would raise the limit for conforming home loans, those backed by government-sponsored loan ... (more) Tuesday, January 22, 2008 Questioning the Employment Data (5 clicks)
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January 22, 2008 at 2:46 pm ET San Diego had another pretty good month for job growth, according to data released last week by the California Employment Development Department.
Unfortunately, you may not want to believe the numbers.
Let's see what ... (more) Friday, January 18, 2008 Credit Default Swap Problems (11 clicks)
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January 18, 2008 at 10:19 pm ET Back in November 2006, I wrote a long-ish piece about credit default swaps. These financial instruments, known for short as CDSs, basically function as insurance policies against borrowers defaulting on loans. In (very) brief, the ... (more) Tuesday, January 15, 2008 Boosterism and December Foreclosures (5 clicks)
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January 15, 2008 at 6:38 pm ET The Union-Tribune's latest monthly housing data wrapup features a parade of industry types saying that now is the time to buy. A few of them acknowledge the inventory glut, but not a single one ... (more) Thursday, January 10, 2008 December Housing Data (1 click)
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January 10, 2008 at 1:46 pm ET The size-adjusted median resale price was absolutely crushed in December:
read more ... (more) Tuesday, January 8, 2008 December Home Prices (4 clicks)
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January 8, 2008 at 5:51 pm ET I'm going to get the whole December resale data rodeo up very soon. In the meantime, here's a quick look at the pummeling taken by prices (as measured by our imperfect indicators, of course).
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