You 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.
Tags: Real estate, Real estate data
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3 responses so far ↓
1 Athol Kay // Nov 5, 2006 at 2:53 pm
Congrats!
2 Ironman // Nov 5, 2006 at 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 // Nov 6, 2006 at 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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