Comments on: Spring into a real estate coverage plan

By: Use new data to update local housing stories : BusinessJournalism.org Reynolds Center for Business Journalism

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:13:33 +0000

[...] recent blog posts on the topic of residential real estate include numerous suggestions for business features that focus on sellers, agents, even mapping [...]

By: Kelly Carr

Kelly Carr — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:16:20 +0000

Thanks for the great tip Steve!

By: Linda Austin

Linda Austin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:30:55 +0000

Thanks for the insight, Steve, and for all the great info you offer on technology on your blog and on Twitter.

By: Robin Phillips

Robin Phillips — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:03:35 +0000

I love that tip, Steve. I’m wondering how much the crash and climb out of the hole is changing the rhythm of what we’ve known about the economy. .. making the current data even less helpful.

By: Steve Wildstrom

Steve Wildstrom — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:42:37 +0000

Many years ago, a wise man (actually the late Daniel Brill, chief domestic economist at the Federal Reserve Board and later an assistant Treasury secretary)taught me to pay no attention to housing data between December and March. The reason: In much of the country, even in a good year, there is very little activity in housing markets during winter. Houses don’t get built and they don’t sell. The seasonal adjustment process inflates tiny changes in the actual numbers into huge swings and abnormal weather, either better or worse than the miserable usual, distorts thing further. It’s going to be a couple of months before we really have any idea of what;s going on in the housing market.

By: Janice Clark

Janice Clark — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:34:41 +0000

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