Housing Market Data

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Written By H. Pike Oliver

2009-07-29 - It's Taking a Year for Homebuilders to Find Buyers Those who seek a more nuanced perspective on the Case-Shiller housing data released in late July 2009, should check out Tom Iacono's assessment, published at seekingalpha.com as well as the Calculated Risk blog's perspective.[1] Also see what Barry Ritholz has to say--Big Picture Blog review of charts on new home sales . Finally, you might want to check out what “Sold at the Top” has posted  at Seeking Alpha, including  trend charts for seven metropolitan areas .[2]

 

[1] For background on Calculated Risk see this brief Wikipedia article at  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculated_Risk

[2] “Sold at the Top” is the pseudonym for an independent software consultant who maintains a blog at www.papereconomy.com

H. Pike Oliver

Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, H. Pike Oliver has worked on real estate development strategies and master-planned communities since the early 1970s, including nearly eight years at the Irvine Company. He resided in the City of Irvine for five years in the 1980s and nine years in the 1990s.

As the founder and sole proprietor of URBANEXUS, Oliver works on advancing equitable and sustainable real estate development and natural lands management. He is also an affiliate instructor at the Runstad Department of Real Estate at the University of Washington.

Early in his career, Oliver worked for public agencies, including the California Governor’s Office of Planning and Research where he was a principal contributor to An Urban Strategy for California. Prior to relocating to Seattle in 2013, Oliver taught real estate development at Cornell University and directed the undergraduate program in urban and regional studies. He is a member of the Urban Land Institute, the American Planning Association and a founder and emeritus member of the California Planning Roundtable.

Oliver is a graduate of the urban studies and planning program at San Francisco State University and earned a master’s degree in urban planning at UCLA.

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