Friday, April 23, 2010

Single-Family Home Prices in Gold

Home Price to Gold Price Ratio: Median single-family home price divided by the price of an ounce of gold

Chart of the day says "it currently takes 153 ounces of gold to buy the median single-family home.

This is considerably less that the 601 ounces it took back in 2001.

When priced in gold, the median single-family home is down 75% from its 2001 peak and remains well within the confines of its five-year accelerated downtrend."


Thursday, April 1, 2010

Home Prices Bottomed February 2009

This week Standard & Poors released the January Housing Price Index. While the index showed a small decline from December, prompting some to say that we're in a double-dip, a look at the index over time seems to indicate that we put in a bottom in February 2009 and are leveling out after a little bump last summer. To draw your own conclusions, visit Seattle Bubble and take a look at the raw Home Price Index numbers in the fourth graph down the page.