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A Better Indicator of a Healthy Market: Liquidity

December 13, 2011

Today, we are again honored to have Ken H. Johnson, Ph.D. — Florida International University (FIU) and Editor of the Journal of Housing Research as our guest blogger. To view other research from FIU, visit http://realestate.fiu.edu/. – The KCM Crew What is the definition of a healthy housing market? Is it a housing market in which home [...]

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Houses Are On Sale Across the Country

December 9, 2011

InfoGraphic The graphic depicts pricing of all homes from their ‘peak through current declines’ as per Case Shiller. This index looks at prices in 20 major metropolitan areas. Each market peaked at different times. Therefore, the InfoGraphic doesn’t cover one segment of time. Here is a site where you can see when each market actually [...]

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Real Estate as a Hedge against Inflation

December 6, 2011

We haven’t heard a lot about inflation recently. However, prices have started to creep upward over the last year. As examples, here are a few categories that increased from November 2010 to November 2011: Food at home – up 6.2% Housing fuels and utilities – up 3.5% Transportation – up 9.2% Today, we want to [...]

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Rent or Buy? The Research Is In!!

November 28, 2011

Today, we are again honored to have Ken H. Johnson, Ph.D. — Florida International University (FIU) and Editor of the Journal of Housing Research as our guest blogger. To view other research from FIU, visit http://realestate.fiu.edu/. Dr. Johnson was one of the top speakers at NAR’s Conference and Expo in Anaheim earlier this month. He is sharing his presentation with us [...]

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Prices: Where They Have Been and Where They Are Headed

November 18, 2011

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The PRICE Is the Same, But the COST Is Less

November 16, 2011

There is more and more research coming out showing that it makes great financial sense to purchase a home today . Whether it be rent vs. buy ratios, income-to-price ratios or income-to-mortgage payment ratios, purchasing a home right now is a bargain compared to historic norms. Now we want to look at the COST of [...]

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