By The Tim on November 8, 2012
A reader emailed me with a question about home prices compared to gold: Any easy way for you to compare Case-Shiller home prices to gold? I have a hunch prices have dropped much more dramatically than we realize, as our USD goes in the tank. Maybe Goldman’s 22% drop prediction was closer if the nasty [...]
Posted in Counties, Features, Statistics | Tagged affordability, gold, inflation, NWMLS, original research, roller_coaster, stair step, Statistics
By The Tim on September 27, 2012
Okay let’s revisit the discussion on local incomes once more. First up, I’d like to highlight the top comment from Monday’s discussion, posted by “gr8day”: I make less today than I did 6 years ago. So does my barber, my brother, my next door neighbor, best friend, pastor at church, and most of the people [...]
Posted in Counties, Statistics | Tagged BEA, CPI, income, inflation, OFM, personal-income
By The Tim on June 29, 2012
A reader pointed out to me this week that it has been three years since I updated the long-term chart of King County home prices back to 1950. So, by request, here is an update to that chart as of May, along with the affordability index over the same time period. In the first quarter [...]
Posted in Counties, Features, Statistics | Tagged affordability, inflation, NWMLS, original research, roller_coaster, stair step, Statistics, Tytler
By The Tim on February 27, 2012
A commenter brought up an interesting point over the weekend: I thought Case-Shiller showed that over time dwellings gained nothing more than inflation. Let’s see how Seattle’s Case-Shiller index has performed compared to inflation since 2000. In the chart below I’ve plotted Seattle’s Case-Shiller Home Price Index (which comes from the factory indexed to January [...]
Posted in Counties, Statistics | Tagged Case-Shiller, inflation
By The Tim on February 26, 2012
This poll was active 02.26.2012 through 03.03.2012
Posted in Polls | Tagged deflation, inflation, Polls
By The Tim on June 3, 2011
Wow, has it really been three months since I posted the national Case-Shiller losses map? I guess so! Sounds like it’s time for a refresh. In the map below I’ve put the Case-Shiller home price index data from all twenty cities on a map. The size of each circle represents how far back prices have [...]
Posted in Counties, Statistics | Tagged Case-Shiller, inflation, maps, real-price-drops, Tableau
