Comments on: Skiing Uphill – A (visual) Case-Shiller update

By: AndyinPC

AndyinPC — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:44:21 +0000

I’m liking the analogy (as unfortunate as it is). The skiing caught my attention and with it snowing outside right now, I’ve got ski season on my mind.
We’ve started seeing a bit of a shift here, I think some of our folks have had enough of the stock market, and are looking for something that is at least tangible.
Cheers, Andy

By: Sven

Sven — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:14:12 +0000

I guess I can’t just pick on real estate with this one. If you bought a down jones or Nasdaq index fund in January of 2000, you’d probably be negative right now. I suppose this makes real estate a far superior investment in the same period of time.

By: Sven

Sven — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:10:08 +0000

This is interesting, the Case Shiller index for San Diego is 168 right now. All indexes were set at 100 starting in January of 2000. This means that, according to Case-Shiller, current housing prices in San Diego are 68% over January 2000 prices.

To put this in perspective, if you put away $100 in an account earning 6.5% interest in January of 2000 (compounding annually), you’d have $170 now. That’s your average rate of return on real estate in this time period.

Last year, when the index was around 225 and it had only been 7.5 years, your average annual rate of return would have calculated out to be 11%. So, while the prices have only (only?) gone down 25% in the last year, your investment rate of return on real estate in the same time period of 2000-present has almost dropped in half.

It’s a great time to buy

By: Smithers

Smithers — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 01:31:15 +0000

Kris,

Does this mean (finally) that you are a “bubble head”?

Just saying….

By: Jay Thompson

Jay Thompson — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:54:42 +0000

Phil – C&Ds to the site owner rarely work. A DMCA notice to the sites host on the other hand is often effective. Painful and time consuming, but effective.

Or, just ignore them. I’ve gotten a few shutdown, but 10 more just take their place.

Kris – *great* analogy!!

By: Phil Hoover

Phil Hoover — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:27:23 +0000

My blog is also being “scraped” and my posts being re-posted on other sites with no attribution.
I have sent cease and desist notices to those sites, but know it is unlikely to do any good.

By: Kris Berg

Kris Berg — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:37:38 +0000

How fitting that my first comment is a trackback to a splog littered with ads for ski vacations and car insurance.

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