Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Long-term interest rates again

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This morning's Wall Street Journal reports that long-term interest rates are at their lowest levels in months, with the ten-year Treasu...
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Sunday, September 24, 2006

A Key to a Soft Landing in Housing

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As I have already mentioned, the Chicago Merc housing futures market is predicting a decline in nominal house prices in several markets over...
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Tuesday, September 19, 2006

America the Spacious

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While those of us who live on the Eastern seaboard of the United States feel hemmed in, the fact is that by World urban standards, we have a...
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Sunday, September 17, 2006

Jon Stewart on Social Foment

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We saw Jon Stewart at Merriweather Post Pavillion last night. He articuated well why many of us can't get organized about expressing o...

Credit to Francois Ortalo-Magne

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It occurs to me that I might never have come up with the idea in the previous post had it not been for a conversation I had with Francois Or...
Friday, September 15, 2006

Do Real Estate Brokers Shirk?

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Steve Levitt is an incredibly smart guy (he has a Clark Medal, the prize for best economist under 40, to prove it) and, according to the peo...
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Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Ofheo House Price Index Flattens

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See http://www.ofheo.gov/media/pdf/2q06hpi.pdf. House prices rose only 1.17 percent in the second quarter, according to the index. This...
Monday, September 11, 2006

A Paper on Market Reaction to 9/11 by Kallberg, Liu and Pasquariello

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I really like this paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=716721 Abstract: This study analyzes how three ...
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Monday, September 04, 2006

The Chicago Merc Housing Futures Market

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Chip Case and Robert Shiller have created a housing futures market for 10 US cities, along with a composite of those cities, that trades on ...
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Sunday, September 03, 2006

A discussion on the Income Distirbution

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From Brad Delong's Blog: http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2006/09/making_em_feel_.html The first comment from readers seems on target to me...

Some Reading for Friday's Commercial Real Estate "bootcamp" at GW.

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Here are a first set of readings. More readings and commentary will be coming shortly. http://www.irei.com/uploads/marketresearch/65/market...
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Thursday, August 31, 2006

What is a "Land of Opportunity?"

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I just heard Clive Crook on NPR describing new research that shows that by one measure, the United States falls behind Finland, Sweden and F...
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Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Assessment of Education

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My colleague Mary Gowan is passionate about the importance of assessment in eduction. Derek Bok, in Our Underachieving Colleges , articula...

Greenstreet Advisors' Panel on Real Estate Markets

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There is a good discussion at http://www.greenstreetadvisors.com/RE_portfolio.html. The key takeaway is that one can be bullish on Texas and...
Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Will the Housing Slump create a recession?

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NYU Professor and Guru Noriel Roubini is arguing that it will--that the housing market is about to crash (especially in coastal cities, alth...

Where most affordable housing comes from--Old Houses

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Sarah Kunkleman, who is Assistant Director for Communications in my school, asked me a good question today: if New Orleans were rebuilt, whe...
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Urban Sprawl (Part 2)

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Reasons 5 through 9: V. GOVERNMENT SERVICES Economist Charles Tiebout pioneered the idea that local units of government compete with each ot...
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Monday, August 28, 2006

Katrina

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I watched good chunks of Spike Lee's HBO film on Katrina last week. Like the rest of Lee's work, the film is brilliant, if frustrat...
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Urban Sprawl

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An easy culprit to pick on for some of our urban ills is sprawl. This is the beginning of something I wrote that was printed in the Univers...
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Sunday, August 27, 2006

Steve Malpezzi and I wrote a Book

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See http://www.urban.org/pubs/housing_primer/
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