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Ride the Housing Price Roller Coaster
Ride the housing price roller coaster in selected cities with this interactive graphic from the New York Times. Which cities have fluctuated the most? The least?
View ArticleAnother Dimension in the Housing Crunch
As retirees downsize and professionals look closer to core cities, too much suburban housing keeps market weak via Newsleader CHARLOTTESVILLE — Changing demographics are the main cause of today’s...
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Why is the Housing Bust so Important?
What does the housing bust have to do with teachers being fired, or roads falling into disrepair, or long-term economic vitality? Why do economists seem preoccupied/slightly obsessed with housing...
View ArticleDebate: What is, or should be, the future of shrinking cities?
Room for Debate in the New York Times recently posed the question: Places like Detroit are steadily losing people. Can empty urban lands be brought back to life? A number of experts to weighed-in on...
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Trulia Report: Mapping Home Price Reductions
Trulia’s Home Offer Report is a a remarkable map — it shows the result of negotiation between homebuyers and sellers. The reveal shows how strong or weak the real-estate market is in every zip code of...
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How SoHo Can Save the Suburbs
Joshua Lutz for The Wall Street Journal. SCENES FROM Montclair, N.J.: The view from a rooftop. Smart ‘edge cities’ are turning their shuttered malls and aging office parks into hip hotspots. In...
View ArticleAre the Millennials Driving Downtown Corporate Relocations?
In spite of the U.S. Census data for the past decade showing continued job de-centralization, there is now much anecdotal evidence for the just the opposite. The Chicago Crain’s Business Journal...
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Data Visualization: Rent vs. Buy
Trulia looked at housing prices, foreclosure activity and job opportunities and found that it’s cheaper to buy a home than to rent in 74% of America’s 50 largest cities. The interactive data...
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Geography of Jobs- Updated through November 2011
The Geography of Jobs data visualization we first created in the spring of 2008 has been updated through November 2011 (Now updated through May 2012). The animated map shows the net change in jobs over...
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Mapping the Laggards in the Recovery
By: Binyamin Appelbaum Via: The New York Times Personal income for residents of Arizona, Florida and Nevada grew much faster than the national average during the housing boom. Since the peak of the...
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Crammed Into Cheap Bunks, Dreaming of Future Digital Glory
By: Brian X. Chen Via: The New York Times Phillip Cohen in the bedroom of a “hacker hostel” in Menlo Park, Calif., where aspiring computer entrepreneurs live cheaply Jim Wilson/The New York Times SAN...
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Homeless Rural Vets Find A Place To Call Home
By: Lucy Nalpathanchil Via: NPR (All Things Considered) This month, more than a dozen homeless veterans will finally have a place to call their own, thanks to the American Legion. The organization’s...
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The Key To A Thriving Creative Class? Give Artists Their Own Real Estate...
By: Emily Badger Via: Fast Company It worked for St. Paul, Minnesota, where artists revived an old warehouse district–and got to stick around to reap the benefits of what they helped create. The...
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Hard-Hit Cities Show a Housing Rebound
By: Shaila Dewan Via: The New York Times Even some of the cities that suffered the most in the housing bust are showing signs of improvement, with prices beginning to recover in places like Miami,...
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Foreclosure Activity Drops to 5-Year Low in September
By: RealtyTrac Staff Via: RealtyTrac IRVINE, Calif. – Oct. 11, 2012 — RealtyTrac® (www.realtytrac.com), the leading online marketplace for foreclosure properties, today released its U.S. Foreclosure...
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Regulatory Break for Mixed-Use Projects
By: Joe Gose Via: The New York Times When the real estate investment manager Jamestown Properties began renovating a massive old Sears warehouse in Atlanta last year, it had a good idea of what it...
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Surprise U.S. Housing Demand Catches Industry Off-Guard – NYTimes.com
By: Catherine Rampell Via: The New York Times Max Whittaker for The New York Times SACRAMENTO — After six years of waiting on the sidelines, newly eager home buyers across the country are discovering...
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10 Reasons Why So Many People Are Moving To Texas
By: Tom Geoghegan Via: BBC News Magazine Half of the 10 fastest-growing cities in the US are in Texas, according to new figures. Why? Every way you look at it, there are a lot of people moving to...
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Housing’s Rise and Fall in 20 Cities
By: Shan Carter and Kevin Quealy Via: The New York Times & Flowing Data Shan Carter and Kevin Quealy for The New York Times updated their housing prices graphic from a couple of years ago. Behind...
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California City Tries Using Eminent Domain To Help Underwater Homeowners
Interview with Krissy Clark Via: Marketplace A novel plan by one city to use eminent domain to rescue underwater mortgages has sparked a lawsuit by major banks. The complaint filed in federal court...
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