http://www.investingintelligently.com/2006/08/30/historical-housing-prices-since-1890/ Not just another (Canadian) financial blog Sat, 16 Oct 2010 15:22:19 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v= hourly 1 http://www.investingintelligently.com/2006/08/30/historical-housing-prices-since-1890/comment-page-1/#comment-8312 Real Estate: Inflation adjusted not nearly the great investment | John D Schultz Sun, 15 Mar 2009 16:27:16 +0000 http://www.investingintelligently.com/2006/08/30/historical-housing-prices-since-1890/#comment-8312 [...] back to normal. The real key is that real estate is not an effective investment tool. With a 0.59% inflation adjusted return since 1890, and a 1.24% inflation adjusted return since 1950 (and that assumes you sold at the peak), you can easily tell it’s not near the huge windfall [...] [...] back to normal. The real key is that real estate is not an effective investment tool. With a 0.59% inflation adjusted return since 1890, and a 1.24% inflation adjusted return since 1950 (and that assumes you sold at the peak), you can easily tell it’s not near the huge windfall [...]

]]> http://www.investingintelligently.com/2006/08/30/historical-housing-prices-since-1890/comment-page-1/#comment-8141 Larry Lavender Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:16:03 +0000 http://www.investingintelligently.com/2006/08/30/historical-housing-prices-since-1890/#comment-8141 I have seen a graph that compares housing prices to household income and indicates a long-term trend of housing representing a stable portion of income. If you know of a reference to that greaph, please send it to me. I have seen a graph that compares housing prices to household income and indicates a long-term trend of housing representing a stable portion of income. If you know of a reference to that greaph, please send it to me.

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