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Case Shiller Confirms Housing Double Dip Accelerates, Misses Estimates For Rebound, Snow Not Blamed
Something funny happened on the way to the "wealth effect": we call it affectionately, the "poverty effect." At least for those who have homes. The November Case Shiller index confirmed that the double dip in housing is accelerating, with the composite index posting its 5 sequential decline. The 20 city composite came at -1.59% Y/Y on expectations of a rebound to 1.7%. Perhaps the Chaircreature should finally consider lowering those mortgage rates instead of focusing so much on the Russell 2000. What we are amazed by is that all that abundant California snow was not blamed on this one particular negative surprise.
Full release which merely confirms all we have been saying all along.
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They'll adjust for snow in upward revised figures next month, "unexpectedly"
The National Association of Realtors™, National Association of Home Builders and National Mortgage Brokers Association all said it's the best time to buy any house, anywhere - and have been saying so since they were formed as organizations, including during the peak of the housing bubble.
Why would they lie?
They're not making any more land...
Yes because that postage stamp size piece of land (surface only) you get with a house makes it worth it.
You can't eat dirt.
And in other news...
Bloomberg reports on the "recovery":
Payrolls Decrease in 35 U.S. States, Led by New York"Payrolls decreased in 35 U.S. states in December, while the unemployment rate rose in 20, showing the labor market recovery is slow to gather momentum."
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-25/payrolls-decrease-in-35-u-s-sta...
I love how the Ministry of Alternate Reality phrases things. "Recovery is slow to gather momentum" - like 3 years slow?
Lol. The economy is like a depressive on prozac, keeps thinking he's cured after every dose.
UK blames snow for negative GDP.
Payrolls decreased in 35 U.S. states in December, while the unemployment rate rose in 20, showing the labor market recovery is slow to gather momentum. The S&P/Case-Shiller index of home values in 20 cities fell 1.6 percent in November from a year earlier, the biggest 12- month decrease since December 2009,
“This kind of mixed picture, combined with some of the positives we’ve seen in retail sales and manufacturing data, rising credit, tells us we’re at a turning point,” said Steven Cochrane, director of regional economics at Moody’s Analytics Inc. in West Chester, Pennsylvania.
A turning point? No, please. Dec 7, 1941 was a turning point. August 6, 1945, was a turning point, Jan. 31, 1968, was a turning point.
CI
More bad news? Of course not, BTFD, it is merely the peasants who are suffering.....
Looks like the banks are out of the woods
HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!
Perhaps the Chaircreature should finally consider lowering those mortgage rates instead of focusing so much on the Russell 2000.
No, we don't need lower mortgage rates. We need to de-lever not re-lever. The housing market needs to reach something close to equilibrium and we ain't there yet in many sub-markets.
Obviously we were merely referring to the Fed reverting to its original 2 mandates, and pulling off the throttle on the 3rd one.
220, 221, hey whatever it takes!
"220, 221, hey whatever it takes!"
classic scene from "Mr. Mom"
the privately owned federal reserve bank may have 2 mandates, officially, but their real mandate is to do what is in the best interests of the banks that literally own it.
"Takin' advantage of some of the time off to uh, add a whole new wing on here."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX3kxAA2L4Q
Thought that was a liitle out of character (could have been a snow-day Tyler fill-in).
Maybe the banks should be swapping debt for equity in many cases of under/non-performing mortgages since that's what often happens when corporations can't make payments. Families get to stay in houses, pain is shared between the two primary interested parties and the market get's frigged with less.
In other news, several ducks were seen lining up in a row.
interesting. I've once seen 4 ducks and one was leading the way and the others followed.
The other day, I have also seen a flock of birds that where flying in a V patern!! I think the birds where trying to tell me something...
NATURE IS JUST SO FUCKED UP RIGHT NOW! MUST BE GLOBAL WARMING!!
I saw the same thing. I think the Visitors are coming. Maybe the'll buy up some debt.
Are those the same ducks I just saw fall out of the sky from "hypothermia?"
BEnron's attempt to kill the black swans has led to mass kills of all acquatic and avian life...
European banks are suing BAC for Countrywide scams!!!
THIS SHIT KEEPS GETTING BETTER!! :)
Much more to come on the "big orgs who got sold shit are going to eff over the shit shovellers" meme...
Lifes a bitch and her name is Sue Yu.
Why's everything got to be the Chinese' fault?
Meanwhile: Insurance continues to...well, ...crash.
http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?rid=42332928&cat=3a8a80d6f705f8cc&utm_s...
But...but...the California snow I know of is definitely responsible for at least some of the 'poverty effect.' It was half of the 'hookers and blow' equation.
Expect home values to meet up with 2002 levels again...Its the only way
That would mean an increase in some places that i'm aware of..
My rent is only 225 a month. I honestly don't see how people can afford these 600+ rents.
Court ordered support.
Where the fuck do you live for $225 lol? Do you have the house paid for or something and that's your property tax and utility costs? Insurance?
In BFE, we can get $350/mo out of a shitbird apartment...
If you have two wage earners that each make ~$25k/year, $600/mo on home payments is pretty easy... you're looking at ~20% of takehome for rent... you can easily tuck away 20% for savings/retirement under this scenario... depending on where you live of course.
$27 per month, coming soon to the Friday Real Estate Section of your local newspaper:
http://www.chinasmack.com/2010/pictures/container-homes-in-chengdu-18-sqm-only-6-rmb-rent-per-day.html
Like the choice in color?
News had it that KaliFornication was due for the storm of storms, not the quake of quakes.
I think NUMBers will not tell any tales for now. It's all about geo this and geo that.
You know, politics, graphy, engineering, all of those geos.
And then there is Helios action. And Luna's distortions.
Homes are going to find their foundations trembling in this tipping point time, literally and figuratively.
ORI
http://aadivaahan.wordpress.com/2011/01/21/accidental-lives/
It just affects the middle class. Those 43 million on food stamps already lost their home. I mean, just 60% of the economy. As long as the bonus money on wall street keeps moving up BMW and Mercedes will be fine.
What planet am I on. Do we break 12,000 today.
The middle class isn't shrinking, there's just an overcapacity of middle class McMansions in Suburbia. I think, no, it's probably a combonation of both.
"Middle class McMansion". That's our problem in a nutshell.
So housing is still in the gutter
Is the recovery starting to sputter?
"No way" says Bad Ben
To all middle-class men
"Just bend over and pass me the butter"
Keep the limericks comin'! LOVE IT!
Here in Belgium it was on the news this morning that if you bought real estate in 2000 for the value of 200.000 euro, that property is now worth 600.000 on average. AND IT KEEPS ON RISING! IT EVEN DID SO DURING THE CRISIS!!
Belgium is clearly the exception and is in no way in a bubble :)
Same here in France.
There is big bucks to make in this time of pre-peak insanity, but I wouldn't risk being left holding the bag.
Many people are going straight to a wall of disenchantment. The prices are high but there is very few buyers, and even less people who buy with cash. When the old-timers who typically own the houses will need to sell, and thus have to lower their prices, we'll have a downward spiral.
"that property is now worth 600.000"
I always cringe when people say what something is worth. I called BS back in 06, 07 when people were telling me their house was *worth* X-amount.00. I always said, then sell it. Something is only *worth* what you can get someone to pay for it.
Those people sure wish they had listened.
Oh yes, the good ol days of 2006. I remember people telling me the same stuff. "My house is worth such and such--I'm rich!" I would simply tell them that it is not the house that is really worth more, it is that the dollar is worth less! Again, a deer in the headlights look.
They didnt blame the snow? LOL, slacker US media...
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmW-ScmGRMA
But the economy is recovering as corporations are taking out more and more loans and selling less while raising prices to make it appear all things are good . Next bubble Corporate bonds .
I love paper money.
http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/8287982/
Want to know of your real estate is properly valued?
Look at the demographics in your metro area.
Then calculate the 'affordability index rate' by figuring the price of the average house against the average family income. At least (minimum) the index should show 30%.
Of course figuring the average family income is trying to hit a moving target these days.
I'm expecting housing prices to have to go back to 1997 levels.
"I'm expecting housing prices to have to go back to 1997 levels."
I think we'll see 1998 values in SoCal
1998 is when real estate valuations started increasing faster than the rate of inflation - ie, the start of the bubble
according to bubble dynamics every financial bubble retraces itself fully and reverts back to its starting point - an overshoot to the downside is also common so values below 1998 levels are possible
I'll be waiting with cash in hand ...
Hmmmm, you could be right.
But the job market now is a lot more grim than when the bubble began. In fact...a lot worse.
That's why I said the average family income was a "moving target". It's moving down.
We're already back to 1997 where I'm at, if not 1994.
Next stop: 1984
I doubt that some markets will ever recover. There will probably be more ghost towns in the Arizona and Nevada deserts.
There will be ghost cities well within our lifetime, in the U.S. China, on the other hands, builds ghost cities first. It's a tragic farce.
Which will kill new construction of homes. Have you priced materials lately? They are too expensive compared to where prices need to fall. Which means, until the overhang gets bought, construction will not be coming back- except apartments/rentals and mobile homes.
Oh yeah, they also brought the new housing code online. Have you priced the new circuit breakers? It will cost over $1000 dollars for a 220 box. They love to kick a guy when he's down.
S'all good. DOW 12,000 will save us.
To the 25% of US homeowners underwater on their mortgages:
Lighten up, assholes. The stock market is going up. Your 100 shares of the [insert name] Large Cap Growth Fund is going up!!
Is bad news still good news? Or, are we entering a new phase of where bad news = bad news?
20 city composite EXCEEDED expectations boys and girls!! BTFD!!!
Jeff Imelty has it all under control! Hey! he is the One's appointed annointed czar of the big economy.
Perhaps the Chaircreature should consider finding a way to buy up actual distressed homes instead of all the shitty distressed mortgage securities backed by them. Silly me, that would imply someone in the Fed and/or the major advising banks actually knows something about the Main Street physical housing market.
Maybe he should burn down Marriner Eccles and then shoot himself and the rest of the Reserve presidents. That would solve part of the problem.
The U.S. is developing a permanent underclass; actually has been for years, but now it is starting to come to fruitition.
I would not be at all surprised to see the Fed begin subsidizing housing on a much larger scale. There is a swelling mob that will never be able to support itself with the inflation we are seeing and will continue to see.
We will have a large segment of the population on permanent welfare. Cheesefood products, Big Macs and, maybe, clapboard houses on the Federal cuff, paid for by the broken middle class. Plans are underway now and I doubt it can be stopped.
Americans must break themselves of the naivete and automatic optimism that was inculcated in them for years. It is a form of hypnosis.
So many Americans will be 'heartened' by the 'ringing tones' of their deep-voiced Magister tonight; he may even appear at the podium with jacket off and sleeves rolled up. This farce is why I covered my short put on yesterday!
Disclosure: Born and raised an American so I know of what I speak.
GM who should of met the same fate as the dodo bird now quietly announces plant build and job creation, But OOOOOnooo not here but in Mexico.
Here in Mexico the positive effects of Bernanke's stimulus can be seen from Puebla to Sinaloa. The tourists of course are terrified but the 2008 negative 8% drop in GDP and 12% UE has been completely turned around and the Mexican nationals adore TARP, QEI, QEII and hope to see QE13 before Bernanke catches on.
CI
A house is worth what someone else is willing to pay for it. Houses are not selling. Ergo, most houses are worth the shelter they provide; ergo, their utilitarian usage. Trying to find legitimate comps for appraisals is next to impossible. Ergo, the chart-mysticism thingy.
I scout property all over the US, and in most places that I'm familiar with I see/don't see huge inventories of real estate that are being kept off the market; surely in the effort to drive/save prices. I believe that hundreds, if not thousands of mid to small banks are on the imminent verge of collapse; unless Big Bro provides direct support. All I can say is, if you're looking for property, be patient and wait a bit longer. Unbelievable opportunities are coming soon.
UnfortunatelyThoreau I must agree, but I think it has do with people not be able to afford the prices with the jobs they have. Sure there's a few (20%) of the working who can but the majority (80%) at an average of 45k a year are not going to beable to buy $200k house, P.I.T.I. +/-1,400.00 per mo and closing costs for the buyer about $14k
New study shows that under-employment may be as high as 53% for Americansthat means 47% of americans are making top dollars doing what they love to do. Their wages are way higher than other part of the world...
So BTFD boys and girls!!
Prices still bubbly in my area as they stand at 2004-2005 levels. However, I did see an advertisement for a condo auction in Sun Valley over the weekend. Minimum bids of $500k on condos that were listed at $1.4M a few years ago. Not bad:)
Today, the Chairman and his acolytes meet...
As his black, 3-ton SUV quietly cleared the iron gates of the Federal Reserve, inside the cavernous monument a lone Goldman Sachs organist in the Fed's musical amphitheatre begins the Chairman's anthem...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FXoyr_FyFw
DRV !!! :-)