drbubb Posted June 2, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 2, 2011 The Case-Shiller Top-10 Cities / CSXR The March 2011 index is back near / or below the 2009 lows, depending on the Index observed. MONTH = : - CSXR- / x$1400 : - CS20- / x$1400 Jun. 2006 : 226.29 $316,806 : 206.38 $288,932 : CSXR Peak July 2006 : 226.17 $316,638 : 206.52 $289,128 : CS20 Peak = = = Apr. 2009 : 150.44 $210,616 : 139.26 $194,964 : First Low July 2010 : 162.24 $227,136 : 148.89 $208,446 = change : + 7.84% ====== : + 6.92% ====== Mar.2011 : 151.66 $212,324 : 138.16 $193,424 : New Low? = change : - 6.52 % ====== : - 7.20 % ====== = change : - 32.9 % ====== : - 33.1 % ====== : From Peak The CS20 Index (Top20 Cities) is now back below the 2009 Low. The brief rally (of about 8%) has given up its gains. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drbubb Posted June 2, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 2, 2011 NOT ALL FALLS WERE EQUAL BOXR - Boston CHXR - Chicago CRXR - Charlotte, NC DEXR - Detroit DNXR - Denver MIXR - Miami NYXR - New York City Boston, Denver and NYC seem to have held well - while the other cities show serious corrections. Chicago and Charlotte look like they have gone back into freefall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CB67 Posted June 2, 2011 Report Share Posted June 2, 2011 Interesting. This might sounds like a stupid questions, but in terms of how these indices are collated, how much of the house price data is represented by foreclosed properties versus non foreclosed properties, and how has this changed over time in the series? My understanding that most of the US housing price data is currently dominated by foreclosure sales (i.e. at very depressed prices) which, over time, one would expect to be cleared out. On a more positive note, at least net household formation in the US is still growing due to immigration etc. Appartently, the divorce rate is now bouncing back as the economy improves and people can "afford" to get divorced. Also, as the labour market continues its slow, if erratic, improvement, more younger folk will leave home ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drbubb Posted June 5, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 5, 2011 Interesting. This might sounds like a stupid questions, but in terms of how these indices are collated, how much of the house price data is represented by foreclosed properties versus non foreclosed properties, and how has this changed over time in the series? My understanding that most of the US housing price data is currently dominated by foreclosure sales (i.e. at very depressed prices) which, over time, one would expect to be cleared out. On a more positive note, at least net household formation in the US is still growing due to immigration etc. Appartently, the divorce rate is now bouncing back as the economy improves and people can "afford" to get divorced. Also, as the labour market continues its slow, if erratic, improvement, more younger folk will leave home ... All true. But I think there is somewhere between 7-10 million "excess" homes that need absorbing. IMHO: That will happen where the homes are near jobs, and/or in nice live-able (and walkable?) communities, but perhaps not in the outer ring suburbs, where homes may be worth "firewood" and no more, if there are no decent jobs nearby. Jobs, Jobs, and more jobs are needed in the US. But in the PRIVATE SECTOR where they add to the tax base, not in the public sector, where they diminish it. The US needs to get rid of the toxic politics and unfortunate tax system, which makes job creation so difficult IMHO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CB67 Posted June 5, 2011 Report Share Posted June 5, 2011 Oh I agree on the US jobs front. But just maybe, not least due to a very strong financial position that most US corporates are now in, the US employment data starts to get much better over the next 18 months (doesn't seem like it, I admit, from recent data points). Could this be the big surprise over the next year or so, with concomitant benefits for relative US interest rate expectations, and the US dollar? My point on the at least 9/10 months of excess "shadow" housing inventory is that, once it is worked off, prices could bounce back quite quickly (in certain locations, as you suggest). Great pity there is not a similar system for working off excess inventory in the housing market as there was in the auto sector with "cash for clunkers" scheme Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drbubb Posted July 16, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 16, 2011 From a thread on the Main Board, Is it time to buy a UK property John doe thankyou for your beatiful example above of the collapse of fiat currencies and the so called middle class the reasons why you have to now include a second partners salary to get leverage enough to acquire the fiat asset is beautifly presented here.... OFFICIAL AND FROM HARVARD LOADED WITH STATS..........a john DOE dream. http://www.esoterictube.com/the-coming-collapse-of-the-middle-class.html The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class Distinguished law scholar Elizabeth Warren teaches contract law, bankruptcy, and commercial law at Harvard Law School. She is an outspoken critic of America’s credit economy, which she has linked to the continuing rise in bankruptcy among the middle-class. Notice that this lecture took place before the credit crisis and global financial meltdown of 2008. I wish you would stick to your own rules and use the official stats ie national average wage is £25,543 not I GUESS £30k, not at all good for such an OFFICIAL STATS FREAK. The reality is that from 2003 the property market has been driven by BTL hhhmmm investors.The first time buyers have been lost in space since then so headlines like the above article is more H@RSE SH/T. In the US, it was not a complete collapse Middle Class, it is a painful readjustment where those who were reckless in their home-purchases will suffer for a few more years, and maybe longer, if they invested in McMansions in the outer ring suburbs. The US government was hellbent on increasing homeownership during the Clinton administration. And home buying was again encourage in the Bush years, when Greenspan used over-investment in housing as a way of pulling the US economy out of a post-Dotcom bust. The main mechanisms were low interest rates and by doling out mortgage credit with little thought of whether the loans could be repaid in the long term. Unfortunately, those making these short term policy decisions were "successful": A knock-on effect of the increasing in homeownership by handing out cheap credit to "anyone with a pulse" was that US home prices shot up. Those who were naive enough to buy into the bubble, rather than selling into it, were left saddled with very large mortgages and maybe, if they were very unlucky, trapped in homes in the outer-ring suburbs. (The banking industry was one of the engineers of this disaster, but many banks wound up saddled with bad mortgage loans stuffing up their balance sheets- They ignored warnings from various quarters, including my own articles in 2004 and 2005 / Example: Lessons of the Grandparents from October 2005.) Now US home prices have retreated to affordable levels, but banks are now lending caustiously so people can no longer borrow at high Loan-to-Value percentages unless they have very large and secure incomes. Further, many homeowners are stuck with big mortgages, and so are not in a position to take advantage of the many bargains that are around. Also, most have not yet figured out the extent to which living far from jobs and social activities is going to be a continuing future financial disaster, when oil prices shoot up in the years to come. The real bargains are those near cities which will have job growth, preferably within walking distance, or with mass transit commuting links, where the price of transport will not be directly linked to future oil prices. America is now paying the price for its short term thinking, and will continue to do so until it "comes to its senses" and starts thinking longer term, and voters demand that their politicians think that way too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drbubb Posted July 23, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 23, 2011 VNQ MARKET CURRENTS more » November 16, 2010 Home prices could fall another 10% through 2011, forecasts S&P, as the housing market contends with "an elevated, but declining level of short sales and distressed asset sales; a large backlog of distressed properties that have yet to be re-marketed for sale; and a high national unemployment rate." /see: http://seekingalpha.com/symbol/vnq Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drbubb Posted July 30, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 30, 2011 Since the housing bust began, the average U.S. home has lost better than 70% of its value in gold. It’s dropped nearly 80% since the gold-market found its own floor back in the early spring of 2001. /more http://blogs.forbes.com/greatspeculations/2011/07/27/is-it-time-to-trade-pricey-gold-bars-for-cheap-houses/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drbubb Posted July 31, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 31, 2011 Harry Dent's Forecast on GSR (about half-way in) MP3: http://radio.goldseek.com/shows/2011/07.29.2011//GSR-07.29.11-cc.mp3 "I think they are going down to where the bubble started... that's 55 percent down from the top, another 30 percent from where they are now." "I think they will go down, and not bounce back." Chris Walcek: "Charles Hugh Smith is looking for a deeper correction... of a fibonacci 62% down from the top." Harry Dent: "I agree with Smith. Our actual forecast is 55 to 65% down." "They may come back slowly, from a low in 2015, but will not bounceback strongly for another decade or so." "High end homes have nowhere to go." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drbubb Posted August 26, 2011 Author Report Share Posted August 26, 2011 /source: http://advisoranalyst.com/glablog/2010/08/26/new-home-sales-set-a-new-record-low-in-july/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perishabull Posted April 22, 2012 Report Share Posted April 22, 2012 Have we seen the low? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drbubb Posted August 23, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 23, 2012 Thanks to Wed.2 for this: "Housing will go into a ”triple dip” in the next couple of quarters" So the US Property Bust... is not yet over http://mhanson.com/archives/1013?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MarkHansonAdvisers+%28Mark+Hanson+Advisors%29 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drbubb Posted October 17, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2012 US REAL ESTATE - Puru Saxena is getting Bullish Turning to the world’s largest economy, it is encouraging to note that its housing market seems to be bottoming out. Amidst all the doom and gloom, at least this is one bright spot and a sustainable recovery in this sector will surely improve consumer sentiment. At this stage, there is no way to know whether America’s housing has already hit rock bottom, but the recent uptick in housing starts and permits are positive signs. Over the long run, income and household formation determine the state of every real estate market. Generally, property prices rise in line with household incomes. During a real estate boom, both valuations (price to income ratio) and new construction rise above their historic trend. Furthermore, the availability of cheap credit and relaxed lending standards fuel the euphoria and rising prices generate a herd mentality. During the final phase of a real estate boom, property becomes a national obsession and people delude themselves into believing that ‘this time is different’. After several years of rising home prices, the participants become convinced that their market is somehow special, therefore not subject to the laws of economics. Interestingly, such misplaced optimism is almost always accompanied by the usual misconceptions (land is scarce, home supply is limited, central banks cannot print houses, affordability does not matter etc.) Unfortunately, no real estate boom lasts forever and the quality of the hangover is alwaysproportionate to the extent of the indulgence i.e. the bigger the boom, the bigger the bust. After the boom has turned into a bust, the opposite occurs during the downturn. Both, valuations and new construction fall below their historic trend. Furthermore, credit becomes scarce, property transactions evaporate and there is a buildup of unsold inventory. Last but not least, optimism and euphoria are replaced by outright despair. Whether you agree with it or not, mean reversion is the most reliable feature for any real estate market. Although real estate is one of the most cyclical assets (prone to extreme booms and busts), the property cycle is lengthy in duration and quite difficult to read. For instance, most market participants are unable to tell where they are in any given cycle. In terms of the US real estate market, history has shown that its gyrations follow a somewhat regular pattern. In fact, between 1960 and 1990, real US home prices peaked every 10 years (in 1969, 1979 and 1989). Thereafter, a long 17-year interval occurred before the next top in 2006 and it appears as though Mr. Greenspan’s easy money policy extended the most recent real estate cycle. Today, inflation adjusted real estate prices in the US are well below trend and mass euphoria has been replaced by abject despair. Thus, it is conceivable that America’s housing market is now bottoming out and getting ready for the next upswing which may last for at least 10 years. ==== /more: http://www.kitco.com...a/20121012.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tedlem Posted October 29, 2012 Report Share Posted October 29, 2012 What is a good stock proxy for this? I use IYR and RWR but not sure if it really reflects the reality of the US property market. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drbubb Posted November 21, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 21, 2012 Another Real Estate Bubble? November 20, 2012 Under Bernanke, the Fed launched three rounds of 'QE' plus 'Operation Twist' in between. One of the objectives is to drive mortgage rates lower. In theory, that should stimulate housing. Using $1,000 per month as the amount of mortgage payment that a borrower can afford, these are the loan amounts at various mortgage rates: Mortgage Interest Loan Amount 6% $166,667 5% $186,220 4% $209,644 3% $236,967 This example illustrates that borrowers that are qualified for a $1,000 per month mortgage payment can borrow 25.9% more if the mortgage rate is 4% instead of 6%. Therefore, in theory, if Bernanke's QEs resulted in rates declining from 6% to 4%, property values should appreciate by 25% if all else were equal. The fact that property values have not appreciated by 25% (with the exception of isolated pockets) would suggest that Bernanke's QEs only succeeded in slowing down the decline in property prices. How significant is this mortgage rate vs. price illustration? Using September data from DQNews, 25.2% of sales in Southern California were financed via the FHA, 24.7% in Phoenix and 35.2% in Vegas. Without artificially low rates, these sales would either be non-existent or be at a proportionally lower price. === /more: http://seekingalpha.com/article/1020051-another-real-estate-bubble Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drbubb Posted November 27, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 27, 2012 City-by-city look at US house prices MarketWatch - 40 minutes ago WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - Here's a city-by-city breakdown of the S&P/Case-Shiller 20-city composite, which showed a not-seasonally adjusted 0.3% increase in home prices in September. Boston: Prices decreased 0.6% in September, with an annual gain of 1.9%. Charlotte, N.C.: Prices decreased 0.3%, and increased 3.5% over the past 12 months. Chicago: Prices decreased 0.6% in September and are down 1.5% over the past year, making this city one of two with negative annual results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drbubb Posted January 18, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2016 Cross-currents. Some are talking a bubble in some US cities, while in others, they are talking about a recovery (received by email): Seems like Buffalo, New Orleans and Detroit making a comeback with potential upside. https://www.yahoo.com/katiecouric/buffalos-big-comeback-201146847.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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