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Bloomberg View Column: Rent Control vs. Keeping Landlords Happy

by Jonathan Miller | @jonathanmiller
June 26, 2015 | 10:00 am | | Charts |
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The past few weeks have offered a window on the tensions between landlords and tenants in New York’s real estate market. Amid the political machinations in the city and the state’s capital, the New York State Assembly let rent controls lapse, temporarily placing more than 2 million tenants in housing limbo. A tentative deal has since been worked out to extend the regulations for four years but the details are not yet available…

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Bloomberg View Column: Want a House? Good Luck With the Down Payment

by Jonathan Miller | @jonathanmiller
June 25, 2015 | 10:56 pm | | Charts |
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Read my latest Bloomberg View column Want a House? Good Luck With the Down Payment. This post also went #1 on the Bloomberg Terminal and on the public facing BloombergView.com site for 2 days. Super crazy.

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Saving for a down payment has long been a big challenge for anyone who wants to buy a home. And it got harder after the financial crisis, as lenders insisted on down payments of 20 percent or more for conventional mortgages, which make up the bulk of the market…

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Bloomberg View Column: How Long Before a Home Lists for $1 Billion?

by Jonathan Miller | @jonathanmiller
June 25, 2015 | 10:49 pm | | Charts |
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Read my latest Bloomberg View column How Long Before a Home Lists for $1 Billion?. This post went #1 on the Bloomberg Terminal and on the public facing BloombergView.com site for about a day and a half. Crazy.

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When a Los Angeles hilltop home that’s under construction was recently priced at a record half-billion dollars, it looked like a one-off in excess. The same thought occurred to me late last year when real estate investor Jeff Greene, who won big betting against the housing market before the financial crisis, priced his renovated Beverly Hills, California, home at $195 million…

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Bloomberg View Column: Costly City Housing Is an Economic Drag

by Jonathan Miller | @jonathanmiller
June 3, 2015 | 6:12 pm | | Charts |
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It’s tough living in a big city — the people, the traffic, the noise. Oh, and did we mention the cost of housing? Contrary to conventional wisdom, high and rising housing costs in the U.S.’s biggest cities are not ideal for an economic recovery. Just the opposite: When housing costs take a big bite out of incomes, it diverts money that could be spent on local goods and services or invested in new businesses that stimulate growth…

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Bloomberg View Column: A Housing Recovery Built to Last?

by Jonathan Miller | @jonathanmiller
May 16, 2015 | 9:17 pm | | Charts |
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Read my latest Bloomberg View column A Housing Recovery Built to Last?.

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The housing market has recovered in fits and starts since the financial crisis, so it’s worth noting when one important indicator looks really strong. This is the case with the pending home sales index, which reflects contracts signed for purchases of single-family homes, co-ops and condos, published by the National Association of Realtors…

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Bloomberg View Column: Invest in a Painting, Not a Condo

by Jonathan Miller | @jonathanmiller
May 4, 2015 | 11:00 am | | Charts |
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A couple of weeks ago, Laurence Fink, the chief executive officer of BlackRock Inc., observed that “the two greatest stores of wealth internationally today is contemporary art … and apartments in Manhattan, apartments in Vancouver, in London”…

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Bloomberg View Column: Want a New House? Good Luck

by Jonathan Miller | @jonathanmiller
April 26, 2015 | 12:04 pm | | Charts |
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Read my latest Bloomberg View column Want a New House? Good Luck.

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Much of the analysis of the housing market focuses on sales volume and price trends. These are important metrics, of course, but they really don’t tell you much about market fundamentals because they are, to a great extent, derivative…

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Bloomberg View Column: House Rich, Land Poor

by Jonathan Miller | @jonathanmiller
April 26, 2015 | 11:41 am | | Charts |
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The living space in newly built U.S. homes is on a tear: Since 1982, the size of a new single-family house has increased by almost 1,000 square feet — which was the size of the average U.S. house in 1950…

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The trend continued after a brief interruption during the early days of the financial crisis…

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Bloomberg View Column: The Bidding Wars Are Back

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April 26, 2015 | 11:31 am | | Charts |
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Hard to believe this is happening again…

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A relic from the days of the housing boom is making a comeback. The share of sales that feature bidding wars is up. According to the National Association of Realtors, 33 percent of all sales were at or above the asking price, a strong indication that more than one bidder was involved in a transaction…

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Bloomberg View Column: Income Inequality Hits the Housing Market

by Jonathan Miller | @jonathanmiller
March 15, 2015 | 6:27 pm | | Charts |
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Read my latest Bloomberg View column Income Inequality Hits the Housing Market.

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This article turned out to be my most-commented on piece so far. The topic of affordability generates a hotbed of conversation.

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There’s been plenty of talk recently about signs of recovery in the housing market. Rather than think about housing as a single market, it might be helpful to look at housing as many markets based on everything from geography to price to new versus existing…

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Bloomberg View Column: Real-Estate Agents Ride High Again

by Jonathan Miller | @jonathanmiller
March 1, 2015 | 8:00 am | | Charts |
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Read my latest Bloomberg View column Real-Estate Agents Ride High Again.

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It was disappointing to have so many Realtors go on the attack over this piece showing they missed the entire point – I was writing about the trend, not the dollars or the splits. Are commission incomes higher in say Manhattan than in rural Texas. Doh! The very idea that incomes are rising after years of low transaction volume plus the lack of resurgence in NAR membership since the financial crisis has made for a little less competition today. This seems like good news to me for the industry. But with the barrier to entry so low, the window will close sooner than later.

I even had a PR executive at NAR send me a critical email concerning my numerical calculations and results but made the mistake of exposing her significant lack of understanding about what data NAR actually publishes. To avoid embarrassing her I opted not to share the letter in this post.

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This is turning out to be a pretty nice time to be a residential real-estate agent. As the housing market recovers, average income has been rising faster than sales largely because there are fewer agents planting for-sale signs…

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Bloomberg View Column: Housing Market Blows Hot and Cold

by Jonathan Miller | @jonathanmiller
February 8, 2015 | 5:32 pm | | Charts |
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Read my latest Bloomberg View column Housing Market Blows Hot and Cold.

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The northern third of the U.S. is locked in a straitjacket of snow, ice and bleak weather better suited to staying at home than going out and hunting for a new one. I can almost hear it now: Remember how awful last year’s polar vortex was for the fledgling housing-market recovery?…

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