Can you win a lottery without buying a ticket? Looks like I just did…

November 5, 2006

lottery_tics.jpgYou gotta love it when you win a contest you didn’t even know you’d entered — sort of like winning a lottery when you weren’t even aware of having a bought a ticket!

Well, that’s what happened this last week with my post on real estate numbers that I entered into the Carnival of Real Estate. Alas, I didn’t win — the prize went to a better post from a better writer, Jim Cronin at the Real Estate Tomato — but what I did win was The Best Post of the Week, Anywhere at PoliticalCalculations (permalink most likely this, but it’s not live yet.)

Political Calculations apparently tracks money and business-related carnivals every week, and I’m honored they came across my post and selected it.

Another numbers-related post that’s also mentioned is on “Interpreting Median House Prices.” Sounds like a yawner, right? Well, actually, no, not at all. The author, James Hamilton, notes an interesting paradox: according to Census Bureau numbers, median national home prices fell 1.7% from 2005 Q3 to 2006 Q3…even though regional median home prices are up in every single region! Confused? Intrigued? Head over and read what James has to say.

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Written by Kevin · Filed Under Real estate, Real estate data 

Comments

3 Responses to “Can you win a lottery without buying a ticket? Looks like I just did…”

  1. Athol Kay on November 5th, 2006 2:53 pm

    Congrats!

  2. Ironman on November 5th, 2006 10:29 pm

    Kevin,

    We’re also fans of Jim Cronin’s writing, but we’re even bigger fans of timely and really well done analysis!

    About that link - we had a minor typo in our URL (substituting a capital for a lower case letter). The following permalink should work much better:

    http://politicalcalculations.blogspot.com/2006/11/on-moneyed-midways-november-3-2006.html

    Best regards!

  3. Kevin Boer, Alain Pinel Realtors on November 6th, 2006 12:07 am

    Thanks, I’ll make the correction. I’ve blogrolled your site and am already looking forward to next week’s edition!

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