The Housing Bubble Blog

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A report from the Arizona Republic. "As interest rates have risen nationally, housing sales prices have fallen about 13% in the Phoenix metro since the peak in May 2022, said Danny Court, partner and senior economist with Elliott D. Pollack & Co. However, even if prices fall another 10 to 15%,...

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A weekend topic starting with Fortune. "A new era of higher borrowing costs and more cautious lenders—coupled with slowing growth and recession fears—has frozen once-red hot segments of the U.S. economy. Logan Allin, founder of Fin Capital, a fintech-focused VC and private equity firm, told Fortune...

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It's Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. "Cooling real estate market trends continued into December 2022, according to reports from the Northern Virginia Association of Realtors and Virginia Realtors. The median sold price for a home also decreased slightly from November 2022, matching...

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A report from the San Francisco Chronicle in California. "Ben Jiang retrieved a key from a lockbox and worked to untangle a mass of chains securing the front gate of his house. Inside, raunchy graffiti covered several walls and doors, fixtures remained broken, rodent droppings dotted the nasty...

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A report from Deseret News. "In December, Salt Lake County’s median single-family home price dropped to $541,900 — 6% lower than the county’s median price in December 2021, according to the Salt Lake Board of Realtors. In May of last year, the county’s single-family median home price was $650,000....

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A report from Silicon Valley. "Last year 'just got really bumpy real quick,' said Janine Hunt, an agent with Red Oak Realty in Oakland. 'We knew it was coming. What goes up must come down.' The median price of existing single-family homes in the Bay Area was $1.08 million in December, according to...

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A report from the Montana Standard. "Home sales have slowed to Great Recession levels as the housing market adjusts to elevated mortgage rates, said John Kasperick, a longtime economist at NorthWestern Energy in Butte, and total mortgage demand has sunk to its lowest level since 1997. According to...

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A report from Yahoo Finance. "Around 42% of homes sold in the final three months of 2022 included some kind of concession from the seller, Redfin data found. A separate study found that 13.6% of sellers also slashed their listing price to attract buyers. Fortunately, price reductions are becoming...

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A weekend topic starting with Reason. "In 2010 Thomas Hoenig, then the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City and a member of the central bank's Federal Open Market Committee, thought he was seeing history repeat itself. In the early 1980s, when he was a vice president at the Kansas...

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It's Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. "RE/MAX reported the median sales price in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, including Orange County, in Dec. 2022 was $810,000, a 4.7% drop from the previous year's $850,000 sales price. The San Francisco Bay Area metro, Honolulu, Hawaii and...