6
May
Housing Market Recovery – Shiller vs Buffet
Housing Market Recovery
Debate over the U.S. Housing Market
No one can really tell if the San Diego housing market has really started a recover from it’s peak in 2005. Only time will tell if 2012 was the start of a recovery in San Diego home prices. Read more 
23
Oct
Yale’s Shiller Discusses U.S. Housing Market
Robert Shiller, an economics professor at Yale University and co-creator of the S&P/Shiller home-price index, talks with Bloomberg’s Carol Massar about the U.S. housing market. Shiller also discusses U.S. stocks. (This report is an excerpt of the full interview. Source: Bloomberg)
Point Loma real estate
7
Sep
Yale Professor … House Price Decline Could Be Worse than Great Depression
In a Yahoo Finance interview with Yale professor and MacroMarkets chief economist Robert Shiller he made some grim housing forecast while promoting his book The Subprime Solution. Three points Shiller made are:
- Home price declines are already approaching those in the Great Depression, when they plunged 30% during the 1930s. With prices already down almost 20%, it's not a stretch to think we might exceed that drop this time around.
- There are about 10 million homeowners whose debt is higher than their home value, which has broad implications for how Americans feel about their wealth and spending habits (read: more pressure on consumer spending).
- The current hopeful consensus — that house prices will bottom soon and then begin to recover — is most likely a dream. Housing markets don't usually have "V-shaped" recoveries. And even if house prices stabilize in nominal terms, after adjusting for inflation, most homeowners will continue to lose money.
- A few of our prior posts about professor Shiller: