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Gary is actually going off Robert Shiller's numbers. Hopefully you know who he is...

(and he made his name with calling two events... after a pretty good career to start)

gary's claim to fame is similar last name to robert shiller

To paraphrase Paul Samuelson "Gary Shilling has correctly called 345 of the last two major downturns." He has been consistently bearish for decades. That's what he does.

Shiller, on the other hand, knows what he talks about. He may not always be correct, but he always has something worthwhile to say.

> He may not always be correct,

When wasn't he?

He called the stock market crash... he called the real estate crash... and then he called "now is a good time to buy" within 4 days of the stock market bottom!

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No, I didn't... sorry.

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No, I didn't do that either.

For March 2012:

"March Case Shiller Misses Expectations: Housing Set For Quadruple Dip"

"( )many of the C-grade economists out there predicted that housing would bottom in March (this time for real) and it would be smooth sailing from there. Alas, the just released March Case Shiller data puts this latest speculation very much in doubt (once again), following a miss of consensus expectations in the Top 20 Composite of a 0.20% increase, printing at half that, or 0.09%, and more importantly, a decline from the February rate of increase, which was 0.15%. The non-seasonally adjusted number declined by 0.03%, the 7th consecutive drop in a row.

All this begs the question: did housing just quadruple dip, with a February local extreme in the Sequential rate of change. As the chart below shows, we had comparable peaks in the summer of 2009, in April 2010, and again in April 2011, following which the downward slide resumed every single time once the temporary benefits of monetary and fiscal easing subsided. Also, recall that March was the last month receiving benefits of a record warm winter: in effect a mini demand pull program. And now comes the hangover.

Bottom line: based on a broad index, housing is about to decline once again, and make a total joke out of all those who, yet again, made "bold" annual housing bottom predictions. "

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/march-case-shiller-misses-expectations-housing-set-quadruple-dip
http://cr4re.com/images/CSMarch2012.jpg

I can't believe it's been two years since I started this thread....

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Funny,I guess one can paint any story, however this mornings headlines are
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the March index rose 0.09% month over month and the 20 city index has now risen for two straight months while the 2.57% YoY decline was teh smallest since Dec 2010.

@Riversider,

In terms of Case-Shiller, we've already seen the "quadruple dip." That happened three months ago in February, when the December numbers came out, and I wrote about it at the time.

However, I think the headlines that you're seeing are an attempt to reconcile Case-Shiller, which still looks negative, with the positive numbers from both the government (FHFA) and industry (NAR).

ali r.
DG Neary Realty

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Wow, I was wrong. I did not call a quadruple dip!

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Streeteasy condo index keeps rising, MoM and Yoy.

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"Streeteasy condo index keeps rising, MoM and Yoy."

"keeps rising".. that's a funny way to put it when it is double digits below peak... and the same level as August 2010... not to mention 2005.

And in real terms... ouch.

"Case Shiller Top 20 Composite Rose In April, Posting Smaller Increase Than In March"

"Remember April? That's when the US stock market peaked. It also occurred right after March when the peak effect of the record warm winter weather hit, resulting in peak forward pulled demand. Sure enough, today's Case Shiller index confirmed that: in April the Top 20 SA Composite Index rose by a respectable 0.67%: not a bad sign considering until February it had declined for 20 consecutive months. The issue, however, is that the April increase was already lower than the March revision, which in turn had seen a 0.73% increase which was the highest since August 2009. Which means precisely what the chart below indicates: a continuous lower trendline in home prices, with delayed monthly noise based on what the S&P does.

And with the S&P plunging in May, expect a comparable response in housing price when the data is finally released. At the end of July. By then, however, we may have bigger issues. Finally, those hoping that the Fed is looking at this indicator as permissive of more negative feedback easing, will be disappointed: the Fed will need to see at least one full period of a sustained decline.

So far not so good."

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/case-shiller-top-20-composite-rose-april-posting-smaller-increase-march

I think it's asking a lot of the C-S to assume that it's finely-tuned enough that a 6 basis points change from one month to the next is an accurate indicator, given that the March data point was just revised upward by 60 basis points.

Who knows what the April data point is going to look like when its revision comes out in four weeks?

ali r.
DG Neary Realty

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I agree DG... I have looked at this data, and the revisions is significant. So looking at m-o-m is misleading. If you looked at what the m-o-m looks like now (March to April) then look at it again next month... You probably will see close to 50bps lower.

"Case Shiller: House Prices increased 2.2% in May"

"average home prices increased by 2.2% in May over April for both the 10- and 20-City Composites.

With May’s data, we found that home prices fell annually by 1.0% for the 10-City Composite and by 0.7% for the 20-City Composite versus May 2011. Both Composites and 17 of the 20 MSAs saw increases in annual returns in May compared to April. ... All 20 cities and both Composites posted positive monthly returns."

http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2012/07/case-shiller-house-prices-increased-22.html

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For June 2012:

"CASE-SHILLER: Housing Soars Past Expectations, As Prices Officially Go Positive Vs. Last Year"

"Big news from Case-Shiller: House prices just went positive on a year-over-year basis.

Analysts had expected a 0.05% decline on a year over year basis, but instead prices rose 0.50%.

This is the first gain since early 2010.

On a sequential basis, house prices rose 0.94%, well ahead of the 0.45% that analysts were expecting."

http://www.businessinsider.com/case-shiller-june-2012-8

Housing prices can't stay down forever, there may be some hiccups along the way but rising tides will like all boats or in this case real estate.

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It's not NYC that's down yoy, it's the New York METROPOLITAN area, doubtful that applies to NYC, particularly Manhattan and Brooklyn.

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When you post a comment, at lest get your facts straight.

"NYC still going lower down 2.1% yoy"

SE Manhattan condo index is up 3.25% yoy. But let's not let data get in the way of a perfectly good confirmation bias

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> SE Manhattan condo index is up 3.25% yoy.

And Miller Samuel, which doesn't exclude co-ops is down. Not to mention, the SE index is at 2005 (!) prices.

> But let's not let data get in the way of a perfectly good confirmation bias

Exactly.

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