
For-sale-only housing vacancies as percentage of owner-occupied housing
Vacancies were even higher in Q4 than in Q3,
itself no slouch.
Given new-home sales still
exceed likely household formation rates, I do not think the bottom is in.
FD: short homebuilders
Real personal consumption expenditures per civilian, noninstitutional populationseasonally adjusted year-over-year percentage change 1986-2006 As promised, here is durables consumption per population, which seems to have bounced nicely in Q4 as furniture
Tracked: Jan 31, 16:52
Net percentage of domestic respondents (sr loan officers)tightening standards for mortgages to individualsThis series is another datum. Alone it doesn't shock, as for now its rise merely echoes the small tightening observed as the last recession came to
Tracked: Feb 07, 20:40
Mortgage of index home at index rate, percentage ofmedian four-person family income, 1986-2006 The OFHEO is out with their house-price index, so I updated my homebrew affordability chart for Q4. While nominal prices continued up, the moderating influe
Tracked: Mar 01, 19:43
National Association of Realtors® Pending Home Sales Index, Seasonally Adjusted Annual Rate, 2002-2006 Here are pending home sales in an update and improvement of last year's slapdash chart. This time I call out both the annual data (2001, the index ba
Tracked: Apr 03, 16:51
For-sale-only vacancies, percentage of owner-occupied housing, 1965-2007A quick update. Not much to say here. National vacancy rates in the first quarter 2007 were 10.1 (+ 0.4) percent for rental housing and 2.8 (+ 0.1) percent for homeowner housing,
Tracked: Apr 27, 20:32