Real Estate Market
An Update on Softening Markets: The Case of Miami Beach
| Dr. Michael Sklarz* and Dr. Norman Miller**
Download a PDF file of this research paper here. Introduction Last year, we wrote a paper titled “Housing Market Softening at the Top End: Will the Bottom End Follow?”[1] In that discussion, we suggested that the high Months…
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Flawed Housing Affordability Analysis: The Case of San Diego County
| Collateral Editor
by Dr. Michael Sklarz* and Dr. Norman Miller** | February 12, 2019 Download a PDF file of this research paper here. Abstract For decades most housing economist have used median home prices and median household incomes along with…
Real Estate Market
Housing Market Softening at the Top End: Will the Bottom End Follow?
| Collateral Editor
by Dr. Michael Sklarz* and Dr. Norman Miller** | October 24, 2018 Download a PDF file of this research paper here. Introduction Some housing market observers have noticed that higher priced homes, on average, are taking much longer…
Real Estate Market
Is A New Home Price Bubble Forming?
| Collateral Analytics
by Michael Sklarz, Ph.D., Jim Follain Ph.D., and Norm Miller Ph.D. INTRODUCTION There has been growing speculation among some economists and real estate market observers that there is another bubble forming in the U.S. housing market or in various metropolitan…
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Current Rise in Home Prices is Not Another National “Housing Bubble”
| Collateral Analytics
July 2013 Market Update The rapid recovery in home prices in a number of U.S. metros has already led some observers to suggest that we are in another home price bubble. We find this unsupporting for a number of reasons,…
Real Estate Market
Shortage of Housing Inventory Leading to Much Higher Prices in Metro Areas across the Country
| Collateral Analytics
The primary theme of the 2013 residential real estate market has been very tight conditions due to the lack of available inventory for sale. This is quite ironic when considering that a year ago, many housing market analysts were predicting…
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Distressed Property Investors Continue to Drive Upswing in Real Estate Market
| Collateral Analytics
April 2013 Market Update The overall perception of the U.S. real estate market is almost 180 degrees different from a year ago when most analysts were focused on the size of the foreclosure inventory and how much further…
Real Estate Market
The Transition from Negative Equity to the REO Inventory – Challenges and Initial Findings
| Collateral Analytics
By James R. Follain, Norman Miller, and Michael Sklarz A critical issue in today’s housing market concerns both the size of the distressed real estate inventory and the speed at which it will dissolve. The faster the transition from distressed…
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Will the Recovery in the Hardest Hit Markets Continue?
| Collateral Analytics
Collateral Analytics – December 2012 – Market Update We have been pointing out for the past year that most of the fundamental factors for a recovery in home sales activity and prices were falling into place. However, the residential real…
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The Foreclosure Inventory Flood that may Never Happen?
| Collateral Analytics
Collateral Analytics Research: September 2012 Market Update It is becoming widely accepted that real estate markets in many parts of the country are in recovery mode. In fact, the transition from weak to good market conditions in many metros has…