Humboldt Real Estate Economics
Welcome to the Humboldt Real Estate Economics websiteThis research is produced by the Department of Economics at Humboldt State University. We collect data from primary and secondary sources to analyze real estate market conditions in Humboldt County, California. We present a monthly overview of the real estate market and update our data as we receive it.News and ForecastHome
Sales Index News Data Seasonally
Adjusted Housing Index (based on houses sold)
Median House Price Inflation-Adjusted House Prices Annual House Price Appreciation Average House Rent Price-to-rent ratio (good way to to see when the market has returned to "normal") Foreclosures, 1979-2015 Archived Data For Sale Listings Arcata For Sale Listings Eureka Monthly Mortgage Payments Inflation-Adjusted Monthly Mortgage Payments Affordability Note: Contact Professor Eschker for data Humboldt County Research Listen to the
October 5, 2007 KHSU radio
interview with Prof. Eschker about
subprime and housing issues (mp3)
It's a National Housing Market, September 2007 Monthly Mortgage Up Despite Lower Interest Rates by Erick Eschker, April 2006 Humboldt County Surrounded by Most Overvalued Housing in the Nation by Erick Eschker, December 2005 Is There a Housing Bubble in Humboldt County? The Housing Market in a Rural California Region, 1989-2004, by Erick Eschker and Soren Messner-Zidell, October 2005 Executive Summary October 2005 Other Research Californian Home Prices are
Overvalued by 35-40% from Goldman Sachs, October 2007
Zoning's Steep Price by Glaeser and Gyourko Most overvalued housing markets from CNN/Money A Froth-Finding Mission: Detecting U.S. Housing Bubbles by HSBC Global Research (large PDF) What is a bubble and is this one now? A very intuitive explanation of a housing bubble from Econbrowser Links Real
Estate Bubbles and California's Economic Growth, Part 1 Video
of lecture by
Christopher Thornberg, PhD, and Part 2
and Part
3
Case-Shiller National Housing Indices Zillow.com (look up local house price history) Realty Trac (look up local foreclosures) Humboldt Association of Realtors Rent vs. Buy Calculator Discussion Forums Calculated Risk
(Economics)
The Housing Bubble (National) Sacramento Land(ing) (no longer updated) Bay Area Housing Crash Econo Almanac for the Landed Poor (San Diego) Director Professor Erick
Eschker
Department of Economics Humboldt State University 1 Harpst Street Arcata, CA 95521 About the Director Send us your comments. Comments will be posted on our Reader Comments page unless otherwise requested. Copyright © 2016 Erick Eschker  |
