50% off is the regular price.

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[quote=Rt.66]SDEngineer:

I just found this concerning the Economist/Case-Shiller chart I referenced.

The term “Urban land prices” is misleading as the Japanese report RE values differently than we do. If you check out this explanation of the Japan Urban Land Prices report:

http://www.reinet.or.jp/en/pdf/20081216pdf1.pdf

it appears they look at the value of the land under a house or CR building in reporting (they seperate the value of the building out). So the Case-Shiller chart is not comparing US houses to Japanese raw land per-se. It’s comparing the closest apples to apples report available. [/quote]

No, that was my point. They are NOT looking at the value of the property (land + improvement) – they are seperating out the value of the land ONLY and using that. That’s why it’s the Urban LAND price index, not an Urban HOUSING price index.

“5. Type of Value
The market value of each survey site is estimated through land appraiseal AS IF VACANT (emphasis mine) and is expressed as a price per square meter as of the date of value”

That is very definitely apples to oranges. If they had the HOUSING prices in that index it would have been a valid comparison.

[Rt.66]

[quote=SDEngineer][quote=Rt.66]SDEngineer:

That chart is of questionable origins don’t you think? Its a bubble bloggers homemade chart from what I can see. Still, nationally it even shows Japans price run up was worse than ours.

Our RE bubble certainly includes land and also CR just like Japan’s bubble did. So if we could find a US chart that shows just land I’m guessing we’d have the a similar chart to the Economist’s chart.[/quote]

The bubble bloggers’ homemade charts were FAR more accurate than the MSM’s charts all throughout this bubble. They appear to be more indepth and accurate in this one as well.

The Economist used this chart to attempt to show that Japan’s runup in prices was MUCH lower than the U.S.’s, when in fact comparing similar indices showed a similar runup in prices nationwide between the U.S. and Japan in terms of housing prices, and a significantly LARGER bubble when compared to large bubble cities (like San Diego or Miami compared to Tokyo or Kyoto).

[/quote]

Still, even your chart shows a higher national price run up in the US than Japan. The homemade, pulled out of a bloggers butt chart says it was worse here too. They just tried to skew it to suit their arguement. But that chart is wrong anyway.

Japan looks at the value of the land under the building in their report. Not raw land. They publish a second report entitled:
“National Wooden House Market Value Index” which appears to be nothing more than a cost of building index.

Maybe that is because in Japan land is scarce and therefore it is common when you want a bigger or better house to tear down the old one and build on the same lot.

So, Japan’s version of our housing price index IS the “Urban Land Prices” report shown in the Economist/Case-Shiller chart.

Dude, go here:
http://www.reinet.or.jp/en/data.html

Tell me were your reliable bubble blogger got his stats? Japan’s Real Estate institute does not publish housing stats like those shown on the blogger’s homemade chart. I am not for a minute implying that a blogger may make a less than accurate chart in order to support a point they are trying to defend or make, certainly not!

But where did he cobble together figures on the structures alone to add to the Urban Land Prices Chart?

It appears to me that proffesor Shiller, by using Japan’s own reports, used the most comparable chart. In which case we are much, much more screwed than Japan.

[Rt.66]

[quote=SDEngineer][quote=Rt.66]SDEngineer:

That chart is of questionable origins don’t you think? Its a bubble bloggers homemade chart from what I can see. Still, nationally it even shows Japans price run up was worse than ours.

Our RE bubble certainly includes land and also CR just like Japan’s bubble did. So if we could find a US chart that shows just land I’m guessing we’d have the a similar chart to the Economist’s chart.[/quote]

The bubble bloggers’ homemade charts were FAR more accurate than the MSM’s charts all throughout this bubble. They appear to be more indepth and accurate in this one as well.

The Economist used this chart to attempt to show that Japan’s runup in prices was MUCH lower than the U.S.’s, when in fact comparing similar indices showed a similar runup in prices nationwide between the U.S. and Japan in terms of housing prices, and a significantly LARGER bubble when compared to large bubble cities (like San Diego or Miami compared to Tokyo or Kyoto).

[/quote]

Still, even your chart shows a higher national price run up in the US than Japan. The homemade, pulled out of a bloggers butt chart says it was worse here too. They just tried to skew it to suit their arguement. But that chart is wrong anyway.

Japan looks at the value of the land under the building in their report. Not raw land. They publish a second report entitled:
“National Wooden House Market Value Index” which appears to be nothing more than a cost of building index.

Maybe that is because in Japan land is scarce and therefore it is common when you want a bigger or better house to tear down the old one and build on the same lot.

So, Japan’s version of our housing price index IS the “Urban Land Prices” report shown in the Economist/Case-Shiller chart.

Dude, go here:
http://www.reinet.or.jp/en/data.html

Tell me were your reliable bubble blogger got his stats? Japan’s Real Estate institute does not publish housing stats like those shown on the blogger’s homemade chart. I am not for a minute implying that a blogger may make a less than accurate chart in order to support a point they are trying to defend or make, certainly not!

But where did he cobble together figures on the structures alone to add to the Urban Land Prices Chart?

It appears to me that proffesor Shiller, by using Japan’s own reports, used the most comparable chart. In which case we are much, much more screwed than Japan.

[Rt.66]

[quote=SDEngineer][quote=Rt.66]SDEngineer:

That chart is of questionable origins don’t you think? Its a bubble bloggers homemade chart from what I can see. Still, nationally it even shows Japans price run up was worse than ours.

Our RE bubble certainly includes land and also CR just like Japan’s bubble did. So if we could find a US chart that shows just land I’m guessing we’d have the a similar chart to the Economist’s chart.[/quote]

The bubble bloggers’ homemade charts were FAR more accurate than the MSM’s charts all throughout this bubble. They appear to be more indepth and accurate in this one as well.

The Economist used this chart to attempt to show that Japan’s runup in prices was MUCH lower than the U.S.’s, when in fact comparing similar indices showed a similar runup in prices nationwide between the U.S. and Japan in terms of housing prices, and a significantly LARGER bubble when compared to large bubble cities (like San Diego or Miami compared to Tokyo or Kyoto).

[/quote]

Still, even your chart shows a higher national price run up in the US than Japan. The homemade, pulled out of a bloggers butt chart says it was worse here too. They just tried to skew it to suit their arguement. But that chart is wrong anyway.

Japan looks at the value of the land under the building in their report. Not raw land. They publish a second report entitled:
“National Wooden House Market Value Index” which appears to be nothing more than a cost of building index.

Maybe that is because in Japan land is scarce and therefore it is common when you want a bigger or better house to tear down the old one and build on the same lot.

So, Japan’s version of our housing price index IS the “Urban Land Prices” report shown in the Economist/Case-Shiller chart.

Dude, go here:
http://www.reinet.or.jp/en/data.html

Tell me were your reliable bubble blogger got his stats? Japan’s Real Estate institute does not publish housing stats like those shown on the blogger’s homemade chart. I am not for a minute implying that a blogger may make a less than accurate chart in order to support a point they are trying to defend or make, certainly not!

But where did he cobble together figures on the structures alone to add to the Urban Land Prices Chart?

It appears to me that proffesor Shiller, by using Japan’s own reports, used the most comparable chart. In which case we are much, much more screwed than Japan.

[Rt.66]

[quote=SDEngineer][quote=Rt.66]SDEngineer:

That chart is of questionable origins don’t you think? Its a bubble bloggers homemade chart from what I can see. Still, nationally it even shows Japans price run up was worse than ours.

Our RE bubble certainly includes land and also CR just like Japan’s bubble did. So if we could find a US chart that shows just land I’m guessing we’d have the a similar chart to the Economist’s chart.[/quote]

The bubble bloggers’ homemade charts were FAR more accurate than the MSM’s charts all throughout this bubble. They appear to be more indepth and accurate in this one as well.

The Economist used this chart to attempt to show that Japan’s runup in prices was MUCH lower than the U.S.’s, when in fact comparing similar indices showed a similar runup in prices nationwide between the U.S. and Japan in terms of housing prices, and a significantly LARGER bubble when compared to large bubble cities (like San Diego or Miami compared to Tokyo or Kyoto).

[/quote]

Still, even your chart shows a higher national price run up in the US than Japan. The homemade, pulled out of a bloggers butt chart says it was worse here too. They just tried to skew it to suit their arguement. But that chart is wrong anyway.

Japan looks at the value of the land under the building in their report. Not raw land. They publish a second report entitled:
“National Wooden House Market Value Index” which appears to be nothing more than a cost of building index.

Maybe that is because in Japan land is scarce and therefore it is common when you want a bigger or better house to tear down the old one and build on the same lot.

So, Japan’s version of our housing price index IS the “Urban Land Prices” report shown in the Economist/Case-Shiller chart.

Dude, go here:
http://www.reinet.or.jp/en/data.html

Tell me were your reliable bubble blogger got his stats? Japan’s Real Estate institute does not publish housing stats like those shown on the blogger’s homemade chart. I am not for a minute implying that a blogger may make a less than accurate chart in order to support a point they are trying to defend or make, certainly not!

But where did he cobble together figures on the structures alone to add to the Urban Land Prices Chart?

It appears to me that proffesor Shiller, by using Japan’s own reports, used the most comparable chart. In which case we are much, much more screwed than Japan.

[Rt.66]

[quote=SDEngineer][quote=Rt.66]SDEngineer:

That chart is of questionable origins don’t you think? Its a bubble bloggers homemade chart from what I can see. Still, nationally it even shows Japans price run up was worse than ours.

Our RE bubble certainly includes land and also CR just like Japan’s bubble did. So if we could find a US chart that shows just land I’m guessing we’d have the a similar chart to the Economist’s chart.[/quote]

The bubble bloggers’ homemade charts were FAR more accurate than the MSM’s charts all throughout this bubble. They appear to be more indepth and accurate in this one as well.

The Economist used this chart to attempt to show that Japan’s runup in prices was MUCH lower than the U.S.’s, when in fact comparing similar indices showed a similar runup in prices nationwide between the U.S. and Japan in terms of housing prices, and a significantly LARGER bubble when compared to large bubble cities (like San Diego or Miami compared to Tokyo or Kyoto).

[/quote]

Still, even your chart shows a higher national price run up in the US than Japan. The homemade, pulled out of a bloggers butt chart says it was worse here too. They just tried to skew it to suit their arguement. But that chart is wrong anyway.

Japan looks at the value of the land under the building in their report. Not raw land. They publish a second report entitled:
“National Wooden House Market Value Index” which appears to be nothing more than a cost of building index.

Maybe that is because in Japan land is scarce and therefore it is common when you want a bigger or better house to tear down the old one and build on the same lot.

So, Japan’s version of our housing price index IS the “Urban Land Prices” report shown in the Economist/Case-Shiller chart.

Dude, go here:
http://www.reinet.or.jp/en/data.html

Tell me were your reliable bubble blogger got his stats? Japan’s Real Estate institute does not publish housing stats like those shown on the blogger’s homemade chart. I am not for a minute implying that a blogger may make a less than accurate chart in order to support a point they are trying to defend or make, certainly not!

But where did he cobble together figures on the structures alone to add to the Urban Land Prices Chart?

It appears to me that proffesor Shiller, by using Japan’s own reports, used the most comparable chart. In which case we are much, much more screwed than Japan.

[SDEngineer]

[quote=Rt.66]

Still, even your chart shows a higher national price run up in the US than Japan. The homemade, pulled out of a bloggers butt chart says it was worse here too. They just tried to skew it to suit their arguement. But that chart is wrong anyway.

Japan looks at the value of the land under the building in their report. Not raw land. They publish a second report entitled:
“National Wooden House Market Value Index” which appears to be nothing more than a cost of building index.

Maybe that is because in Japan land is scarce and therefore it is common when you want a bigger or better house to tear down the old one and build on the same lot.

So, Japan’s version of our housing price index IS the “Urban Land Prices” report shown in the Economist/Case-Shiller chart.

Dude, go here:
http://www.reinet.or.jp/en/data.html

Tell me were your reliable bubble blogger got his stats? Japan’s Real Estate institute does not publish housing stats like those shown on the blogger’s homemade chart. I am not for a minute implying that a blogger may make a less than accurate chart in order to support a point they are trying to defend or make, certainly not!

But where did he cobble together figures on the structures alone to add to the Urban Land Prices Chart?

It appears to me that proffesor Shiller, by using Japan’s own reports, used the most comparable chart. In which case we are much, much more screwed than Japan.

[/quote]

Not sure where you conclude that Prof. Schiller had anything to do with that Economist article. It didn’t have a byline. As far as I can tell, they simply used his index to estimate the housing run up, and compared that to the land price run up.

However, the point I was trying to make is that the Economist was doing an apples to oranges comparison, and thus it’s conclusions are likely suspect.

[SDEngineer]

[quote=Rt.66]

Still, even your chart shows a higher national price run up in the US than Japan. The homemade, pulled out of a bloggers butt chart says it was worse here too. They just tried to skew it to suit their arguement. But that chart is wrong anyway.

Japan looks at the value of the land under the building in their report. Not raw land. They publish a second report entitled:
“National Wooden House Market Value Index” which appears to be nothing more than a cost of building index.

Maybe that is because in Japan land is scarce and therefore it is common when you want a bigger or better house to tear down the old one and build on the same lot.

So, Japan’s version of our housing price index IS the “Urban Land Prices” report shown in the Economist/Case-Shiller chart.

Dude, go here:
http://www.reinet.or.jp/en/data.html

Tell me were your reliable bubble blogger got his stats? Japan’s Real Estate institute does not publish housing stats like those shown on the blogger’s homemade chart. I am not for a minute implying that a blogger may make a less than accurate chart in order to support a point they are trying to defend or make, certainly not!

But where did he cobble together figures on the structures alone to add to the Urban Land Prices Chart?

It appears to me that proffesor Shiller, by using Japan’s own reports, used the most comparable chart. In which case we are much, much more screwed than Japan.

[/quote]

Not sure where you conclude that Prof. Schiller had anything to do with that Economist article. It didn’t have a byline. As far as I can tell, they simply used his index to estimate the housing run up, and compared that to the land price run up.

However, the point I was trying to make is that the Economist was doing an apples to oranges comparison, and thus it’s conclusions are likely suspect.

[SDEngineer]

[quote=Rt.66]

Still, even your chart shows a higher national price run up in the US than Japan. The homemade, pulled out of a bloggers butt chart says it was worse here too. They just tried to skew it to suit their arguement. But that chart is wrong anyway.

Japan looks at the value of the land under the building in their report. Not raw land. They publish a second report entitled:
“National Wooden House Market Value Index” which appears to be nothing more than a cost of building index.

Maybe that is because in Japan land is scarce and therefore it is common when you want a bigger or better house to tear down the old one and build on the same lot.

So, Japan’s version of our housing price index IS the “Urban Land Prices” report shown in the Economist/Case-Shiller chart.

Dude, go here:
http://www.reinet.or.jp/en/data.html

Tell me were your reliable bubble blogger got his stats? Japan’s Real Estate institute does not publish housing stats like those shown on the blogger’s homemade chart. I am not for a minute implying that a blogger may make a less than accurate chart in order to support a point they are trying to defend or make, certainly not!

But where did he cobble together figures on the structures alone to add to the Urban Land Prices Chart?

It appears to me that proffesor Shiller, by using Japan’s own reports, used the most comparable chart. In which case we are much, much more screwed than Japan.

[/quote]

Not sure where you conclude that Prof. Schiller had anything to do with that Economist article. It didn’t have a byline. As far as I can tell, they simply used his index to estimate the housing run up, and compared that to the land price run up.

However, the point I was trying to make is that the Economist was doing an apples to oranges comparison, and thus it’s conclusions are likely suspect.

[SDEngineer]

[quote=Rt.66]

Still, even your chart shows a higher national price run up in the US than Japan. The homemade, pulled out of a bloggers butt chart says it was worse here too. They just tried to skew it to suit their arguement. But that chart is wrong anyway.

Japan looks at the value of the land under the building in their report. Not raw land. They publish a second report entitled:
“National Wooden House Market Value Index” which appears to be nothing more than a cost of building index.

Maybe that is because in Japan land is scarce and therefore it is common when you want a bigger or better house to tear down the old one and build on the same lot.

So, Japan’s version of our housing price index IS the “Urban Land Prices” report shown in the Economist/Case-Shiller chart.

Dude, go here:
http://www.reinet.or.jp/en/data.html

Tell me were your reliable bubble blogger got his stats? Japan’s Real Estate institute does not publish housing stats like those shown on the blogger’s homemade chart. I am not for a minute implying that a blogger may make a less than accurate chart in order to support a point they are trying to defend or make, certainly not!

But where did he cobble together figures on the structures alone to add to the Urban Land Prices Chart?

It appears to me that proffesor Shiller, by using Japan’s own reports, used the most comparable chart. In which case we are much, much more screwed than Japan.

[/quote]

Not sure where you conclude that Prof. Schiller had anything to do with that Economist article. It didn’t have a byline. As far as I can tell, they simply used his index to estimate the housing run up, and compared that to the land price run up.

However, the point I was trying to make is that the Economist was doing an apples to oranges comparison, and thus it’s conclusions are likely suspect.

[SDEngineer]

[quote=Rt.66]

Still, even your chart shows a higher national price run up in the US than Japan. The homemade, pulled out of a bloggers butt chart says it was worse here too. They just tried to skew it to suit their arguement. But that chart is wrong anyway.

Japan looks at the value of the land under the building in their report. Not raw land. They publish a second report entitled:
“National Wooden House Market Value Index” which appears to be nothing more than a cost of building index.

Maybe that is because in Japan land is scarce and therefore it is common when you want a bigger or better house to tear down the old one and build on the same lot.

So, Japan’s version of our housing price index IS the “Urban Land Prices” report shown in the Economist/Case-Shiller chart.

Dude, go here:
http://www.reinet.or.jp/en/data.html

Tell me were your reliable bubble blogger got his stats? Japan’s Real Estate institute does not publish housing stats like those shown on the blogger’s homemade chart. I am not for a minute implying that a blogger may make a less than accurate chart in order to support a point they are trying to defend or make, certainly not!

But where did he cobble together figures on the structures alone to add to the Urban Land Prices Chart?

It appears to me that proffesor Shiller, by using Japan’s own reports, used the most comparable chart. In which case we are much, much more screwed than Japan.

[/quote]

Not sure where you conclude that Prof. Schiller had anything to do with that Economist article. It didn’t have a byline. As far as I can tell, they simply used his index to estimate the housing run up, and compared that to the land price run up.

However, the point I was trying to make is that the Economist was doing an apples to oranges comparison, and thus it’s conclusions are likely suspect.

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