Tuesday, December 23, 2014

When Can We Expect a Complete Housing Recovery?

The following chart shows the 12-month moving total of new one family housing units sold per capita.


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Let's zoom in for a closer look.


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Due to the exponential trend failure, we can no longer expect a complete housing recovery in 2017. The new estimate is just this side of never.

Source Data:
St. Louis Fed: Custom Chart

4 comments:

  1. But new home prices recovered very nicely, thank you.

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  2. Joseph Constable,

    Who could have known that re-inflating new home prices would lead to struggling new home sales again?

    Sigh.

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  3. Rob Dawg,

    I think they might have dampened the tank a bit on this last pass. Got high median new house price molasses? D'oh!

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