bursting bubbles or what recovery?
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A visual exploration of a bursting asset price bubbleTRANSCRIPT
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What a bursting bubble looks like
or, what housing recovery?by Igor Rivin
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• A few days ago, I was browsing Trulia’s listings in Princeton, and noticed that they have a rather useful summary of recent housing activity: price and the number of sales.
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It looked like this:
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Some observations
• The housing decline started in 2006 (a fair bit before the stock market decline).
• The prices (in Princeton) never really collapsed, but sales declined precipitously.
• The decline does not look precipitous, but that’s because Trulia uses a log scale! Keep that in mind for the rest of this little study.
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So, I decided to look around the country, and see. The cities
in the following slides form a reasonable cross-section.
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Providence, RI
Prices peaked in 2006, never recovered, sales down by factor of 5 from peak.
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Lowell, MA
Both prices and sales collapsing(sales by a factor of 30!
prices by almost a factor of 3)
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Philadelphia, PA
Prices essentially flat from 2008,sales off by a factor of four!
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Atlanta, GA
Prices back to 2007 peak,sales off by almost a factor of 3
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Orlando, FL
Prices off 40% from peak,sales down by factor of 5!
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Miami, FL
Prices down 30% from 2007 peak,Sales off by factor of 5!
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Phoenix, AZ
Prices down 30% from 2007 peak,sales down by factor of 3!
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Sacramento, CA
Prices off by 40%,Sales off by factor of 2.5
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Modesto, CA
Prices off by factor of 2 from peak,Sales off by factor of 3
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San Jose, CA
Price: almost back to peakSales: down factor of 2.5
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San Francisco, CA
Prices: up by 20%! Sales down by factor of 2.5!
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Minneapolis, MN
Prices: down 15%,Sales: down a factor of 2
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Seattle, WA
Prices: Up slightly,Sales, down by factor of 2!
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New York, NY
Prices: up slightlySales: down by factor of 2(very hard to tell visually)
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The Moral of the story
• Sales are down, and the fall is accelerating.
• Prices have recovered (we did not factor in inflation, by the way) in New York and San Francisco — the wealthiest cities in the country.
• Why? Because Fed’s money printing is causing an asset price bubble, but the vast majority of the population can’t afford the asset.