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House Prices: The Long Tail
calculatedriskblog.com - 7/1/2009
House Prices: The Long Tail
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First a couple of quotes: From Bloomberg: Shiller Sees ‘Improvement’ in Rate of Home-Price Drop Home prices saw a “striking improvement in the rate of decline” in April and trading in funds launched today indicates investors believe the U.S. housing slump is nearing a bottom, said Yale ...
Shiller Sees ‘Improvement’ in Rate of Home-Price Drop (Update2)
bloomberg.com - 6/30/2009
Shiller Sees ‘Improvement’ in Rate of Home-Price Drop (Update2)
— bloomberg.com — June 30 (Bloomberg) -- Home prices saw a “striking improvement in the rate of decline” in April... and trading in funds launched today indicates investors believe the U.S. housing slump is nearing a bottom, said Yale University economist Robert Shiller ... (more) Shiller Sees ‘Improvement’ in Rate of Home-Price Drop ...

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Case-Shiller: House Prices Fall in April
calculatedriskblog.com - 6/30/2009
Case-Shiller: House Prices Fall in April
— calculatedriskblog.com — S&P;/Case-Shiller released their monthly Home Price Indices for April this morning. This monthly data includes prices for... 20 individual cities, and two composite indices (10 cities and 20 cities). Note: This is not the quarterly national index.  ... (more) Case-Shiller: House Prices Fall in April
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Wednesday links: the next bubble
Abnormal Returns — ... “By most measure like price-to-income, price-to-rent and real prices, a large portion of the probable [home] price declines are behind us.”  (Calculated Risk) ...

A V-shaped recession?
Econbrowser — ... The question is whether our financial system is willing and able to extend the credit that would fuel the recovery. The key battering ram so far has been the deterioration in the value of residential-mortgage-backed securities aggravated by the collapse in real estate prices, which collapse could easily continue. Calculated Risk doesn't share the ...

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