Showing posts with label national. Show all posts
Showing posts with label national. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Those Crazy Realtors

A local real estate agent (who shall remain nameless) recently sent a friend this Op-ed piece from the Wall Street Journal. along with this comment:

"Here is an interesting article I thought you might enjoy. It is a bit wordy but very good national information about the real estate market. Remember, the article is referring to our market nationally.

Oregon real estate is still relatively strong!"

Wow. 2 pages is wordy? Are her clients illiterate on average?

I also love that this piece really refers to the national market, and specifically talks about new housing starts, neither of which really apply to Oregon or Portland specifically.

But my favorite is the last line. If relatively strong means we've only dropped 7% when the rest of the country has dropped 10% or more, then yes, we're relatively strong.

It must be exhausting staying that optomistic all the time!

Friday, February 29, 2008

Great chart on homes prices across the nation

The NY times has a great interactive chart that shows the %change in house prices over the past 20 years: "Home Prices Across the Nation".

I've clipped the chart for Portland, but I encourage you to go play with the chart on their site.

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