15 hours ago by Jack Sternberg

According to the government, home values edged lower last month. The Federal Housing Finance Agency’s Home Price Index report shows values down by 0.3 percent from the month prior — the index’s first down month since April. The Home Price Index is based on the value of homes financed via Fannie Mae ...

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14 days ago by Econophile

I've been in Ecuador on business and I have all this vitriol stored up from not being able to publish for two weeks and it needs to be spewed. I just read Foreign Policy magazine's " The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers," and it is worthy of my bile. Of all the crap I have to read every day to get to idea ...

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15 days ago by Glenn Kelman

On the last Tuesday of every month, I get up at 5:45 a.m., pour myself a bowl of cereal, and begin hitting the refresh button on my browser, waiting for the Case-Shiller data to come out on the housing market. Once the data go live, we crunch the numbers, make some charts and publish a newsletter su ...

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17 days ago by Misha

George may have left office a year ago, but there appears to be a growing consensus that the likely shape of the recovery will be a “W.” How appropriate, if you believe that we are reaping the bitter fruit of his administration’s policies. A front page article in the Business Section of last Wednesd ...

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21 days ago by Lisa Taylor

We got our monthly newsletter out just in time for the holiday. It was sent to 135,021 folks, up 7% from last month. You can always read our newsletter here, but if you’d like to receive it via email, just sign up. Enjoy! Lisa Happy Thanksgiving Redfinnians! Lots of big Redfin news this month, and o ...

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21 days ago by Lisa Taylor

We got our monthly newsletter out just in time for the holiday. We sent it to 135,021 folks, up 7% from last month. You can always read our newsletter here, but if you’d like to receive it via email, just sign up. Enjoy! Lisa Happy Thanksgiving Redfinnians! Lots of big Redfin news this month, and of ...

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21 days ago by DLC

This week, existing home sales were up 10% year over year. However, prices declined 7.1 percent in the same time period. Any ”’alleged’ green shoots were found in the quarter over quarter price declines of only 3.8% – boasting the smallest decline since Q1 of 2008. New home sales, meanwhile, were up ...

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21 days ago by Bridget Magnus

By now everyone has heard that existing home sales were up in October, which drove inventory down. Residential investment and the Case-Shiller are up too. Even sales of new homes are up. Don’t get to thinking this is a trend. The reason we had so many closings in October is that buyers were trying t ...

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21 days ago by Kathy Landstra

Standard & Poor’s Case-Shiller Home Price Report was released yesterday for the month of September, which was the resulting end of 3Q 2009. The analysis from Standard & Poor’s seemed to focus on the continued strength of housing prices in the second and third quarter. A sustained run of six months o ...

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21 days ago by The Tim

Let’s check out the three price tiers for the Seattle area, as measured by Case-Shiller. Remember, Case-Shiller’s “Seattle” data is based on single-family home repeat sales in King, Pierce, and Snohomish counties. Note that the tiers are determined by sale volume. In other words, 1/3 of all sales fa ...

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