Posts tagged with Housing
Cities by the Bay
I call three bayside cities home: Hong Kong, Vancouver, and San Francisco. They also happen to be three of the most expensive places in the world to live [1]. Housing prices in these three cities consistently outpace that of adjacent…
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 of the family growing up—…
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 Money folks focused on the…
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 in place in early March,…
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 to own a home in…
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 much when it seems like…
