Think-Realty-Magazine-January-February-2019

MARKET DATA& ANALYSIS

Miami Beach, FL

LOCAL MARKET MONITOR

PRICE ABOVE INCOME PRICE

HOME PRICE INCREASE (3-YEAR)

LOCAL MARKET MONITOR

POPULATION

2,662,874

39%

28%

Miami - Miami Beach, FL

1,611,050

38%

31%

San Francisco - San Mateo, CA

3,145,515

35%

19%

Anaheim - Santa Ana, CA

4,441,890

34%

25%

Riverside - San Bernardino, CA

2,754,258

34%

34%

Denver - Aurora, CO

2,915,582

31%

34%

Tampa - St. Petersburg, FL

Bubbles for the NewYear? RISING PRICES IN THESE FIFTEEN MARKETS COULD MAKE THEM RISKY INVESTMENTS.

will continue to rise in these markets during 2019 - that's our forecast - but investors need to have a risk-mitigation strategy in mind right now. •

1,943,299

31%

23%

Austin, Round Rock, TX

2,839,550

30%

41%

Seattle - Bellevue, WA

2,722,260

28%

30%

Oakland - Fremont, CA

10,116,705

28%

26%

Los Angeles - Long Beach, CA

by Ingo Winzer

IngoWinzer is president of Local Market Monitor, which analyzes conditions in 300 U.S. markets, using such economic data as home values and

1,952,872

27%

29%

San Jose - Sunnyvale, CA

he champagne may be flowing on New Years, but a brief celebration

price, a calculated value that has been infallible over the past 30 years in iden- tifying over-priced markets. Prices in these markets increased from 20 to 40 percent over the last three years. It's riskier to invest in markets where prices are more than 20 percent higher than the income price, because even-

tually prices always come back to the "income" level. That can happen grad- ually - as the "income" price increases with local income. Or it can happen with a crash - as we saw in the last recession. The problem is that we don't know which way it will be - or when, exactly. It's most likely that home prices

T

664,422

27%

43%

Boise City - Nampa, ID

growth in employment and population. Winzer, who has analyzed real estate mar- kets for more than 20 years, was a founder and executive vice president of First Research, an industry research company that was acquired by Dun & Bradstreet in March 2007. He is a graduate of MIT and holds an MBA in finance from Boston University. Winzer resides in Cambridge, Mass. www.localmarketmonitor.com.

for how well real estate markets have done in the past year must be followed by a sober assessment of those markets that may be in a price bubble themselves. We've listed 15 markets where home prices are now well above the "income"

1,153,340

27%

32%

Salt Lake City, UT

443,990

27%

37%

Reno - Sparks, NV

4,489,109

27%

28%

Phoenix - Mesa, AZ

Source :: Local Market Monitor, 2018

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