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The Trillion Dollar Housing Roller Coaster
The analogy between real estate and roller coasters is obvious. Everyone knows they both have crazy ups and downs. With the U.S. real estate ride lately, we are all wishing we were riding on the kiddie roller coaster with the small bumps and turns. Unfortunately, it’s more likely we are riding on the Kingda Ka roller coaster with its record-breaking 418-foot drop. The RealEstate.com team brings you breaking real estate news weekly, and we’ve noticed a trend – real estate news is positive one month and dismal the next. We set out to find a simple way to measure the status of the market, and we found one way to do just that. Here are the results
Here’s a little bit about our methodology: We calculated the total value of the housing market for three separate months – the peak (March of 2007), the trough (Nov of 2011) and the latest (June of 2012). We then calculated the theoretical value of the housing market during each of these periods, by multiplying the average price of a sold home by the estimated number of housing units, using numbers supplied by the U.S. Census Bureau.
These numbers are what they are, and ... more

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