Ephemeral Web Real Estate
In an era when written letters are outright quaint , I still enjoy the tradition of the Christmas card. We started it when the kids were born[1], and have kept it up with annual updates...
Housing
Another Housing Bubble
A recent episode of the Planet Money podcast talked a bit about the current housing crunch and the reasons for some of the biggest price increases in housing for decades. To quickly summarize, the Planet...
A Housing Market Within the Pandemic
What happens when a market—say, real estate—experiences a sudden drop in liquidity as the environment makes it much harder for buyers and sellers to actually transact? In the Bay Area, we started sheltering...
You Don’t Deserve a House in the Bay Area
Time to check-in on the Bay Area housing crisis in 2016. ... Yep, still as bad as ever. The latest controversy is that, contrary to silly ideas back in 2015 that two working professionals could afford...
It’s Hard to Think Rationally about Bigger Housing Numbers
Sometimes it just feels wrong, even when the math technically checks out. This question caught my eye the other day on Quora: Why do people complain about cost of living in the Bay Area so...
What Happens when Houses are too Expensive to Afford?
I get notifications from Redfin every day on the houses for sale in the neighborhood. Like Louis Gray, I’m often astounded by how much the cost of real estate has been raising in the Bay Area, going from merely “really expensive” to completely out of reach in a matter of 4-5 years. Increased housing...