Today’s links. Some halloween stuff in with the serious stuff. -Bonds Beat Stocks: 1981-2011 (TheBigPicture) -Great summary of underwater refi plan (FT Alphaville) -CHARTS on Case Shiller Home Price Numbers (Bespoke) -Intriguing Policy From Chicago Fed Pres (Bonddad) -11 Ways To Ghost-Proof Your House (InmanNews) -5 Most Profitable Horror Movies Ever Made (Minyanville)
Posts Tagged ‘S&P Case Shiller’
Owning A Home Isn’t Necessarily Smart (part 2)
Case Shiller’s August report showed home prices across 20 major U.S. metro areas were up 0.2% since July, the fifth straight monthly ’20-City’ gain but it’s barely a gain. Prices are down 3.8% since August 2010, a slightly lower year-over-year loss from last month. Home prices are still down drastically from 2006 highs and now [...]
Fundamentals 10/25: Home Prices, Consumer Confidence
Home Prices Case-Shiller Home Price Index (August report) -20-city, Month/Month Seasonally adjusted +0.0 % -20-city, Month/Month Not Seasonally adjusted +0.2 % -20-city, Year/Year Not Seasonally adjusted -3.8 % FHFA Home Price Index (August report) -Month/Month -0.1% -Year/Year -4.0%
America’s Top Cities: Cheapest Real Estate On Earth? (INFOGRAPHIC)
Great infographic from Credit Sesame via WSJ. Interesting follow up to today’s report from S&P Case Shiller on July Home Prices. Click image for full size and writeup. WSJ has more on Credit Sesame.
Home Prices Up Last 4 Months, But Here’s Fine Print
Case Shiller’s July report showed home prices across 20 major U.S. metro areas were up 0.9% since June, the fourth straight monthly ’20-City’ gain after seven months of decline. But prices are down 4.1% since last July, and prices are down drastically from 2006 highs and now at 2003 levels (CHARTS BELOW).
Fundamentals 9/27: Consumer Confidence, Home Prices
Consumer Confidence -Consumer Confidence – Level for September 45.4 -Previous 44.4. Consensus 46.5 -This is a survey by the Conference Board and it is supposed to measure consumers’ predisposition to spend.
Case Shiller Confirms Importance Of LOCAL Home Price Analysis
Case Shiller’s June report showed home prices across 20 major U.S. metro areas were up 1.1% since May, the third straight monthly ’20-City’ gain after seven months of decline. But prices are down 4.5% since last June, and prices are down drastically from 2006 highs and now at 2003 levels (charts below).
Fundamentals 8/30: Home Prices Flat, Consumers Nervous
Consumer Confidence -Consumer Confidence fell from 59.5 to 44.5 in August -This is a survey measurement of predisposition to spend -WSJ used the words “plummeted” and “plunge” -This is lowest Consumer Confidence since April 2009 -It’s in-line with the Consumer Metrics measurement of increased online discretionary spending in early July which flattened at the end [...]
Owning A House Isn’t Necessarily Smart
Yesterday’s S&P Case Shiller May report showed home prices across 20 major U.S. metro areas were up 0.6% since April, the second straight monthly gain after seven straight months of decline. But prices are down 4.5% since last May, and prices are down 32.3% from June/July 2006 to May 2011.
Fundamentals 7/26: Home Sales, Prices Still Weak
June New Home Sales -New Home Sales: 312,000 (annualized) -312k is less than half 700k economists consider healthy -Down 1% from May, up 1.6% from June 2010 -Median new home sales price up 7.2% to $235,200 -Average new home sales price $269,000 -60% of the gain is in the South -6.3 months supply at current [...]
