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Real Estate Bubble Numbers

Posted on 11/30/11 at 7:31 pm
Posted by John Merlyn
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Posted by LSUtoOmaha
Nashville
Member since Apr 2004
26709 posts
Posted on 11/30/11 at 8:37 pm to
This makes me nostalgic for the great real estate bubble threads we had in 2009 or so. Interesting times. That's around when MileHigh and Hapalap went insane and started buying guns and canned goods and shite
Posted by Quidam65
Q Continuum
Member since Jun 2010
20484 posts
Posted on 11/30/11 at 8:38 pm to
DFW seems to be doing the best, down from the highs but not as dramatic a dropoff as the others.
Posted by djmicrobe
Planet Earth
Member since Jan 2007
4970 posts
Posted on 11/30/11 at 8:43 pm to
he graph indicates that prices need to drop another 25-30%
Posted by kfizzle85
Member since Dec 2005
22022 posts
Posted on 11/30/11 at 9:03 pm to
As the graph indicates, the rate of change from 07-09 was significantly higher than the rate of change from 2009-2011. Accordingly, the number of threads started related to said changes has also decreased. Its absolutely not any less important IMO, but the broader public doesn't give a shite because there aren't hysterical headlines every month anymore.
Posted by I Love Bama
Alabama
Member since Nov 2007
38421 posts
Posted on 11/30/11 at 9:10 pm to
Real Estate is still climbing where I live. We dodged a bullet.

But if they cut the defense budget.....
Posted by MrLSU
Yellowstone, Val d'isere
Member since Jan 2004
28980 posts
Posted on 11/30/11 at 10:12 pm to
2015-2016 is the bottom. 20 to 35% drop in most areas still to come.
Posted by 90proofprofessional
Member since Mar 2004
24445 posts
Posted on 11/30/11 at 10:58 pm to
quote:

20 to 35% drop in most areas still to come

Is that the consensus? What's the basis of that estimate? I'm just starting to try to get a handle on the housing market and all of its associated issues.

Reading up on it, I came across some comparisons of the housing prices indices from a little further back than the OP and some of them suggest we're pretty close to where we'd be if the early 2000's bubble didn't happen. Example:

So what in the story is this leaving out? Is the >20% number based on an assumption of the govt ending some of its policies incentivizing buying, or what?
Posted by kfizzle85
Member since Dec 2005
22022 posts
Posted on 12/1/11 at 12:05 am to
No, he's just throwing a number out there for the sake of throwing a number out there.
Posted by Shankopotomus
Social Distanced
Member since Feb 2009
21078 posts
Posted on 12/1/11 at 10:39 am to
exactly. this shite is so unique to each individual market that one number thrown out like that can't even come close to defining the complexity of where the "bottom" may actually be in some areas
Posted by I Love Bama
Alabama
Member since Nov 2007
38421 posts
Posted on 12/1/11 at 10:48 am to
Hey Shank. You got an email address I can get you at?
Posted by C
Houston
Member since Dec 2007
28158 posts
Posted on 12/1/11 at 10:50 am to
Is this not inflation adjusted and why is 2000 an important date?
Posted by kfizzle85
Member since Dec 2005
22022 posts
Posted on 12/1/11 at 10:52 am to
While I don't disagree with that, I think he was just talking about a national level. My problem is having a range that has a margin of error of like 50 percent (and of course my board pet peeve of people just throwing shite at the wall without any kind of reason for backing up their statements).
Posted by 90proofprofessional
Member since Mar 2004
24445 posts
Posted on 12/1/11 at 11:14 am to
quote:

so unique to each individual market that one number thrown out like that can't even come close to defining the complexity

Right, but that poster gave it as the minimum over a range, 20-35%, so the oversimplification aspect of the claim wasn't what I was concerned with. (For example, there's no way you're going to convince me to expect a 20% price drop in the DC area without some unforeseeable disaster happening, let alone 35%.)

It's the notion that there's definitely any significant drop still coming, across all local markets, that I'm asking about. Is there a rational basis for that view?

(Don't really lurk here much so I'm not familiar with the personalities, and any sarcasm will be lost on me. Also I will assume that everyone here is smarter than I am)
Posted by Tiger n Miami AU83
Miami
Member since Oct 2007
45656 posts
Posted on 12/1/11 at 11:36 am to
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20 to 35% drop in most areas still to come
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Is that the consensus? What's the basis of that estimate? I'm just starting to try to get a handle on the housing market and all of its associated issues.


Hell no. In Brickell (Miami), prices have been rising all year (2011). Up about 10%. Rents are up about 15%.
Posted by kfizzle85
Member since Dec 2005
22022 posts
Posted on 12/1/11 at 11:44 am to
I think if you asked most people who don't fall into either tail of overly bearish or overly bullish (so, using myself), they would tell you that the general trend is expected to be low single digit year over year decreases for the foreseeable future, or basically just flat. Its up to you to decide how relatively good or bad that might be.
Posted by 90proofprofessional
Member since Mar 2004
24445 posts
Posted on 12/1/11 at 12:00 pm to
quote:

basically just flat

This is what I'd been coming to think, excluding the possibility of some significant change in govt incentives for buying.

One thing I came across that was interesting was that the mortgage deduction wasn't even on the deficit supercommittee's chopping block, despite the political climate. Safety net programs and defense spending were, but not that.
Posted by tirebiter
7K R&G chile land aka SF
Member since Oct 2006
10709 posts
Posted on 12/1/11 at 3:44 pm to
One could also throw out that the states which allow non-judicial foreclosure could be much nearer a bottom than those that don't. Almost 700 days in some states to foreclose??? Free ride those mortgage payments. That shite don't happen in GA unless there is a serious issue with documentation. Wham, bam, thank you very little, next.

Posted by Tiger JJ
Member since Aug 2010
545 posts
Posted on 12/2/11 at 10:17 am to
The best factoid I've seen recently said that if you count all the "owners" who are currently not paying their mortgage, the "ownership" rate falls all the way to 61%.
Posted by LSU0358
Member since Jan 2005
8086 posts
Posted on 12/2/11 at 10:24 am to
quote:

"owners"


I like the quotes there. Most people (myself included) aren't owners, we just live in the house.
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