Los Angeles, Orange counties No. 1 in U.S. home-price gains by this index
FILE PHOTO 7 COMMENTS By JONATHAN LANSNER | jlansner@scng.com | Orange County Register PUBLISHED: March 3, 2018 at 6:00 am | UPDATED: March 3, 2018 at 10:13 am Want another reason for the high cost of local living? By one widely-watched home-price benchmark, the strongest appreciation nationwide this century was in Los Angeles and Orange counties. The S&P/Case-Shiller indexes are curious real estate yardsticks, invented by and named for two pioneering professors in housing economics. This benchmark is narrow in scope as it follows housing in just 20 large U.S. markets. Think of it as housing’s equivalent to the Dow Jones industrial index, the venerable Wall Street tracker of 30 publicly traded and well-known companies. When I tossed S&P/Case-Shiller data into my trusty spreadsheet I learned prices in L.A.-O.C. have surged to a nation’s best 171 percent since January 2000. (Ahem, that includes the housing bubble burstin...
Comments
Post a Comment