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Reader Question: Home Prices in Gold?

Posted on November 8, 2012November 8, 2012 by The Tim

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…

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King County Home Prices & Affordability 1950 – Q2 2012

Posted on June 29, 2012June 29, 2012 by The Tim

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…

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King County Home Prices & Affordability 1950-2009 Q1

Posted on May 20, 2009October 27, 2010 by The Tim

A reader pointed out that I had not provided an updated chart of the long-term (50+ year) trend of local home prices since I originally posted my research in February 2008. So, here’s an updated look at the long-term trends in local home prices and affordability: So much for Steve Tytler‘s famous “stair step” theory…

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King County Home Prices: 1946-2007

Posted on February 19, 2008February 14, 2011 by The Tim

A while back (September 2006, to be more precise) the Seattle Times published a 22-year “analysis” of King County home prices, which essentially came to the conclusion that Seattle would be immune to the home price drops that were beginning to occur elsewhere around the country. Their graph of local home prices going back to…

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