We review Yelp’s new index for rating local economies: It’s a good start For a long time, the only comprehensive and reliable means we’ve had of tracking and comparing economic activity across state and regional economies has been official government…
What to make of the high credit scores of new renters in some markets: alarm bell or success signal? RentCafe–one arm of Yardi Matrix, a real estate data and services firm–has a very interesting new data series on the credit…
What City Observatory did this week 1. The growing premium for urban living. Three years ago, City Observatory introduced the term “the Dow of cities.” In essence, its the observation that the growth in city home prices relative to suburban…
Slowly, the rhetorical battle is being won, as affordable housing advocates acknowledge more supply matters There’s been a war of words about what kind of housing policies are needed to address the nation’s affordability problems. Economists (from the White House to…
The premium that households pay to live in cities relative to suburbs and rural areas continues to increase Three years ago, we introduced the term “Dow of cities.” It’s a riff on the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), which is…