Re: [PEN-L] Riotous Real Estate

2005-04-19 Thread Michael Perelman
Maybe the real bubble indicator is that the Wall St. Journal says that S. Korea will now start investing some of its surplus $$$ in mortgage bonds. Echoes of the Japanese binge on US real estate? On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 12:58:36PM -0700, Eugene Coyle wrote: Not that anyone save Mike Davis has

Re: [PEN-L] Riotous Real Estate

2005-04-19 Thread Jim Devine
according to the US Census Bureau, Privately-owned housing starts in March were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,837,000. This is 17.6 percent (±7.7%) below the revised February estimate of 2,229,000 and is 8.2 percent (±5.9%) below the March 2004 rate of 2,000,000. Single-family housing