Tag Archives: Data

Noe Valley Goes Down

Posted on May 5, 2009 by Misha

Noe Valley’s been my home since 1991 so I’ll admit that I track it with more attention than other neighborhoods.  For quite a few years now it’s also had a reputation for maintaining home values even as the rest of … Continue reading →

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SF Home Prices at 2003 Levels

Posted on March 6, 2009 by Misha

Sorry, folks, but it’s that bad — or good, depending on your perspective. I tracked average and median prices going back to 2000 for the ten combined MLS districts that comprise the San Francisco Multiple Listing Service — the big … Continue reading →

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Absorption R.I.P.

Posted on February 2, 2009 by Misha

After talking to people about my last post on Absorption Rates and the lack of a correlation between slower absorption and lower median prices (or faster absorption and higher prices), I got the impression that there was some curiosity — … Continue reading →

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Revised Absorption Chart, but the results are the same, only worse

Posted on January 30, 2009 by Misha

Thanks, Jean-Claude for making me take a second look at my methodology on my Absorption Chart.  I had anticipated your point about the lag between listing dates and sales but had unfortunately gotten the formula backwards in my chart — … Continue reading →

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Supply/Demand: Does it predict price? Maybe not.

Posted on January 25, 2009 by Misha

Now hold on there, matie!  Basic economic theory  says more supply than demand, prices will fall, right?  Well take a look at this graph. It shows the absorption rate of single family home listings from January 2006 through December 2008 … Continue reading →

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Update to Halloween Horror: Did it just get scarier….??

Posted on October 30, 2008 by Misha

The day after I posted my take on the Case-Shiller Index, they came out with July’s report (they’re always trailing three month averages) showing a continuing decline in the San Francisco MSA.  Wait for it:  down 27.3% from July 2007.  … Continue reading →

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Horror Headline (just in time for Halloween): SF home prices down 24.8%!!!

Posted on October 27, 2008 by Misha

Yup, that’s right folks.  According to the well-known and well-respected Case-Shiller Index published by Standard and Poor’s, San Francisco home prices in July 2008 were down a whopping 24.8% from a year previous.  How can this be, when you read … Continue reading →

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Just How Bad Is It? (Answer: depends)

Posted on October 23, 2008 by Misha

I’ve been digging a bit deeper into the raw data that’s used to generate the beautiful graphs you can find here and which I used to generate the MLS District graphs in my blog of a few days ago. So … Continue reading →

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What on earth does this chart mean? (Click to make it bigger)

Posted on October 20, 2008 by Misha

I was wondering how prices in various MLS Districts in San Francisco were doing relative to each other and to San Francisco as a whole so I graphed the monthly median prices of single family homes in all but the … Continue reading →

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San Francisco Condos doing just fine, thank you.

Posted on May 28, 2008 by Misha

Condos often get hit hard in times of real estate turmoil, but that doesn’t seem to be happening in San Francisco — at least for now. This graph shows a 12 month moving average of actual condo sales through March. … Continue reading →

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