A Comment on House Prices: Real Prices and Price-to-Rent Ratio in February

The expected slowdown in year-over-year price increases has occurred. In October 2013, the National index was up 10.9% year-over-year (YoY). In February 2015, the index was up 4.2% YoY.  However the YoY change has only declined slightly over the last six months. Looking forward, I expect the YoY increases for the indexes to move more sideways (as opposed to down).   Two points: 1) I don't expect (as some) for the indexes to turn negative YoY (in 2015) , and 2) I think most of the slowdown on a YoY basis is now behind us. This slowdown in price increases was expected by......(read more)

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