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April 6, 2018

Why The Black Homeownership Rate Is The Same 50 Years After The Fair Housing Act Became Law

The next few days you’ll probably see a lot of news stories about the Fair Housing Act being signed 50 years ago on April 11, 1968. What those stories likely won’t tell you is the percentage of U.S. blacks who own their own homes today compared to back then. The 1970 census found 42% of black households owned their own homes. Today, the number is also 42%. That seems impossible!

March 27, 2018

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March 27, 2018

A Surprise In The Bottom 3 Cities For Home Price Appreciation

Updating these Case-Shiller charts by hand is mind-numbingly boring but I love the charts after I’m done! Seattle, Las Vegas and San Francisco appreciated the most from a year ago.

November 26, 2017

Tax Bill 2017 – Real Estate Highlights

The week before Thanksgiving the full House passed a tax bill and a committee in the Senate passed a separate but similar tax bill that was sent to the full Senate to consider. It’s looking like we may end up with the largest changes to the U.S. tax code since 1986.

November 3, 2017

Mortgage Interest Will Remain 100% Tax Deductible For Landlords

Here are my views of how federal tax policy makes homes much less affordable for American families.

October 11, 2017

What Happens to Home Prices After a Fed Rate Increase?

I like to say that I predicted 4 out of the last 0 mortgage rate increases so I don’t even try to predict mortgage rate increases anymore. To me it seems crazy that they’ve been so low for so long. I would have never predicted it. BUT… the consensus this morning seems to be that the Fed will increase the Federal Funds rate in December.

October 4, 2017

Is Texas More Liberal Than London!

Comparing London to Texas property taxes. It started out as a simple idea. I just wanted to know if London had high or low property taxes than Texas.

September 15, 2017

Update on "Percent of Homes Increasing in Value"

I’m was trying to peek around corners a bit with this idea of looking at Zillow’s dataset of percent of homes that are increasing in value. Zillow doesn’t publish these graphs themselves but they do publish the raw data so I took that data and made these graphs. Zillow looks at their Zestimates for all homes…

September 7, 2017

My Customized Case-Shiller Charts

One of the unique things I do here at RealEstateDecoded.com is that I publish an INFLATION-ADJUSTED Case-Shiller Home Price Index. You can see what’s really going on with home prices by looking at the Real, Inflation-Adjusted Case-Shiller Home Price Index.

July 28, 2017

Buy Like Barack! Buy the House You’re Renting

The Washington Post reported recently that Barack and Michelle Obama bought the house they had been renting. That was serendipitous for me because I’ve been working for a crazy number of months on an online course called, “Buying the House You Rent.” Nice timing, Barack! Thank you! One of the authors of the original story…