Sunday, June 21, 2009

Real housing prices vs. the unemployment rate

Red: the unemployment rate
Blue/green: inflation-adjusted house prices

Source: Calculated Risk.

3 comments:

AccuriZ said...

what is this supposed to be revealing to us?

kahner said...

That in the last 2 high unemployment cycles peak unemployment was approximately coincident with housing price bottoms. but its clearly not a very robust relationship. check the link to CR, he has a more retailed explanation.

The Anonymous said...

Does anyone know if the peaks and valleys for DC proper roughly coincide with the DC MSA?