I just added the Case-Shiller (S&P) Housing Price Index to my list of Great Web Sites (on the right hand side of the blog…check it out). This index measures prices of same home sales in 20 different U.S. market centers (e.g., SF includes San Mateo, Alameda, Contra Costa and Marin Counties in addition to San Francisco). It is large, cumbersome, professional, somewhat slow to press (i.e., they publish results at the end of each month based on data from 2 months prior) and unparalleled for a systematic view of the housing resale industry. The Case-Shiller Index is a weather vane of the nation’s housing industry.
There are other great web sites there, too.
Please let me know if you have a site that you think should be included here.
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