Real Housing Prices Stabilizing … or Falling

Case-Shiller through July, Zillow through August.

Figure 1: Case-Shiller 20 city home price index (blue, left log scale), Zillow forecast of Case-Shiller August value (blue +, left log scale), and Zillow single-family home prices (brown, right log scale). Source: S&P via FRED, Zillow, BLS, and author’s calculations.

As Calculated Risk notes, Zillow makes predictions for the Case-Shiller index. They forecast the August 2019 m/m growth rate (not annualized) in the 20 city composite at -0.1% (roughly -1.2% on an annualized basis). The forecast is shown in Figure 1 as a “+”.

New home sales depict a much more optimistic picture, as Calculated Risk discusses.

5 thoughts on “Real Housing Prices Stabilizing … or Falling

  1. Moses Herzog

    @ Menzie
    There are lots of numbers lately that are interesting, especially presented in graph form. Have you seen the numbers/graph that indicates the gap between consumer expectations and current conditions?? The current number looks like it’s about negative 75. But if you look at the graph going back to roughly 1989 it’s very eye-opening IMO.

  2. Moses Herzog

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  3. Dan Treadway

    It would be interesting to see graphs of the volume of real estate purchases by non U.S. citizens, the U.S. Federal Reserve QE balance sheet, and Federal Funds target rate on the Case-Shiller 2014-August 2019 x-axis shown above.

  4. Moses Herzog

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