I’ve covered the difference between OFHEO Home Price Appreciation Index and the S&P Case-Schiller Home Price Index data several times. Here’s ONE example: Compare and Contrast on Home Price Appreciation Indices. Both indices of home price appreciation have flaws, but I believe the limited geographic coverage and bias in weighting towards larger homes makes […]
What are the writers of this article on retirement homes smoking? The premise is a three-scenario “what if” where a couple decides whether or not to buy their retirement home before retiring, or wait (two scenarios are spent on one of those options). The gist of the article is that the couple wait […]
What classes of real estate speculators are there? What are the benefits of real estate speculating? How does it compare and contrast to other forms of speculating, such as in the stock market? This is a brief primer on the subject of real estate speculation, and is not intended to be a […]
Check out this story, which makes one wonder how many sub-prime foreclosures are related to out-and-out fraud, and I really doubt that these foreclosures, in particular, will impact consumer spending! LOL. This one fraud ring accounts for over 100 subprime foreclosures …
Seriously, one fraud ring accounted for over a hundred subprime foreclosures, mostly of […]
I mentioned in a comment to my previous post on home price appreciation and its measurement that a compare and contrast between the bears’ favorite index and the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) index might be interesting.
This information is quoted directly from pages 25 and 26 of the OFHEO HPI 2Q07 […]
