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22 Nov 2011

Updated for November: one of my favorite economic dashboards. It highlights major macro indicators, what direction they are trending, and what the typical ranges are. It also lets you drill down to explanations of why you should care, and historical values.

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Washington DC Housing Prices

In: Housing Interactive Maps Source: Washington Post

11 Oct 2011

A nicely annotated analysis of changing house prices in the DC region. The main graphic shows how much you would need to earn to buy a “typical single family home”. There is also an interactive version which lets you compare information for different time periods and look at condo vs house sales. (related article)

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Housing: Rent vs Buy

In: Housing Innovative Source: Ritholtz Source: WSJ US Economy

17 Aug 2011

Barry Ritholtz has another great post about the housing market over at The Big Picture. In addition to his analytical insights, he pointed out two great tools for looking at housing markets across the country.

The first is a Rent vs Buy interactive from Trulia:

Second is the Wall Street Journal’s chart of price-to-income ratios (compared to the 1985-00 average).

(related WSJ article)

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Bad Credit Calculator

In: Housing Source: Washington Post

26 Jul 2011

This interactive tool from the Washington post lets you see how much your credit score affects the interest you will pay on mortgage and auto loans.

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Too Big to Fail

In: Bailout Finance Housing Source: Ritholtz US Economy

30 Jun 2011

A pretty comprehensive explanation of the financial crisis. (via The Big Picture)

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Mortgage Denial Rates

In: Housing Interactive Maps

27 Jun 2011

Percent of mortgage applications that were denied in 2010. “In all, the nation’s 10 largest mortgage lenders denied 26.8% of loan applications in 2010, an increase from 23.5% in 2009.”

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Update: Economic Indicators Dashboard

In: Employment Finance Housing Stock Market US Economy

23 Jun 2011

My favorite economic status tool. Point and/or click on anything and everything to learn something new about the economy, and why you should care.

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Foreclosures

In: Housing Maps Source: NYT

20 Jun 2011

The backlog of mortgage delinquencies continues to stagnate after court rulings slowed the process in most states. The housing market won’t really be operating as a “market” for quite some time.

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Housing Double Dip

In: Housing US Economy

31 May 2011

Even with the low interest rates, housing prices continue to tank (with only Washington, DC showing an increase).

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Update: Economic Indicators Dashboard

In: Employment Finance Housing Interactive US Economy

25 Apr 2011

Based on these indicators, things are returning to normal.

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How Healthy is Your Housing Market?

In: Housing Interactive Maps

18 Apr 2011

Trulia maps out some cool housing price stats: The number of days a listing is on the market before they lower the price, how much they lower it, and the probability it will be lowered again – all by zip code. (via)

This is in addition to Trulia’s existing housing dashboard and heat maps, which are nifty as well:

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Housing Prices (1890-2011)

In: History Housing Source: Ritholtz

15 Apr 2011

Updated chart of the classic Case-Shiller housing price index. On the one hand it looks like the decline may be bottoming out – but on the other, there is still massive intervention supporting the market and we could very likely overshoot fair value.