Nov 29 Falling U.S. House Prices Not a Good Sign Image by Fusion via Getty Images. Making Sen$e reporter/producer Elizabeth Shell files most of this post on Tuesday's Case-Shiller housing index. The punchline: housing prices declined in September -- not a good sign. Here's her summary of the… Continue reading
Oct 25 Dwelling on the Good and Bad: U.S. Housing Prices at the Moment A construction worker gestures on the roof of a home in Phoenix, Ariz. Home prices inched up in August from the previous month according to the Case-Shiller Index. Photo by Joshua Lott/Bloomberg via Getty Images. Paul Solman answers questions… Continue reading
Oct 25 Dwelling on the Good and Bad: U.S. Housing Prices at the Moment A construction worker gestures on the roof of a home in Phoenix, Ariz. Home prices inched up in August from the previous month according to the Case-Shiller Index. Photo by Joshua Lott/Bloomberg via Getty Images. Paul Solman answers questions… Continue reading
Oct 21 The Role of Salesmen in the Subprime Mortage Mess A foreclosure sign stands outside a home in Winchester, Va. Photo by Jay Mallin/Bloomberg via Getty Images. Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news on his Making Sen$e page. Continue reading
Oct 14 Chinese Housing Bubble: A Troubling Update from Beijing EmbedVideo(1753, 482, 304); In this latest dispatch from China, stand-up economist Yoram Bauman explores the possibility of a Beijing housing bubble. We first reported on this threat in our "China on the Rise" series back in 2005,… Continue reading
Oct 14 Watch Chinese Housing Bubble: A Troubling Update from Beijing Stand-up economist Yoram Bauman explores the possibility of a Beijing housing bubble. Continue watching
Sep 27 Housing Prices Are Moving On Up A home for sale in Tempe, Ariz. Flickr photo by 'Nick Bastian Tempe, AZ.' Moving on up. Or more like "creeping." That's one way of wording the latest Case-Shiller housing price numbers, up 3.6 percent since their 20-city… Continue reading
Aug 30 Watch Millions of Distressed Properties Stuck in ‘Shaky’ U.S. Housing Market The troubled U.S. housing market got some good news Tuesday with word that prices in four major cities are on the rise, but a full recovery still appears to be a long way off. Jeffrey Brown discusses why home sales… Continue watching
Aug 30 Why U.S. Housing Prices Aren’t Falling Off a Cliff Click on the cities above to see how housing prices have changed from June, 2003 to June, 2011 according to the S&P/Case-Shiller Housing Index. Data are in Tuesday morning from what may be the one reliable product coming… Continue reading
Aug 19 In Israel, Protesters Decry Rising Cost of Living By P. J. Tobia It started as one woman's protest against high rent in her neighborhood. Now, tens of thousands of people are protesting the high cost of living in Israel. Continue reading