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How do I get my city added to your report schedule? |
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Purchase
an Ad-Free Report (sample) |
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Purchase
an Ad-Free Report by selecting the city from with the left-hand navigation bar and then clicking on the Buy Now (Google Checkout) button. |
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Generate
conversation on our blog regarding your city of interest |
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Request
an Ad-Free Custom Report |
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Send
your custom report request to analysisguy@gmail.com for
pricing details. (top) |
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How often do you publish reports? - What is the next city to be published? |
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Reports are typically published every business day. For a full report schedule visit our FREE Reports section. (top) |
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Where do you get your data? - What does some of this data mean? |
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How do I get a city report without all the ads? - How do I get bigger charts? |
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Purchase
an Ad-Free Report (sample) by selecting the city from with the left-hand navigation bar and then clicking on the Buy Now (Google Checkout) button. (top) |
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How should I use your information? - Who is this information for? |
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thebubblebuster.com has valuable information for just about everyone, as just about everyone has a financial stake in the real estate market. The constant in real estate has been that is always cyclical and surprising fairly predictable in the past 30 years.
Renters
Use thebubblebuster.com to determine when it will be a good time to buy. It’s probably best to continue renting if prices are heading downward. However, if prices in your area are reasonable and likely to increase or even remain flat, owning a home may be the best option.
Homeowners
Use thebubblebuster.com to determine when it will be a good time to upgrade, downgrade or maybe even sell and get out of the market all together. It’s typically best to continue owning a home, unless prices in your area are headed for a very steep decline (turnover costs). However, the best times to upgrade and downgrade are at the peaks and troughs. Your goal should be to upgrade at a trough and downgrade a peak. In other words, buy a bigger home when prices are low and sell that big home when prices are high and move into a smaller home.
Investors
Use thebubblebuster.com to determine when it will be a good time to buy. The residential investor class can be broken down into two parts: (1) long-term investors (aka landlords) and (2) short-term investors (aka flippers). Both groups will want to buy at the lowest price or trough. However, each group has a different window of opportunity. Long-term investors can handle a periods of small price declines or stagnation as the turnover costs are too high to sell and re-buy. Short-term investors on the other hand need to be swift and nimble and need to avoid any period of price decline. (top) |
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What the deal with your blog? - Where's the old blog? |
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Presently the blog isn't fully integrated within the website (different format). However, the future blog should be fully integrated and create a completely seamless experience.
You can access old blog posts at http://homepricehistory.blogspot.com/, however, this blog hasn't been updated since January 1, 2007. (top) |
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Why do you do this? - Why do you do this for free? |
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Virtually
no one disseminates unbiased real estate information. There
simply is little money in it. The reason is real estate agents
want to spin the truth to encourage sales, the government
wants to spin the truth to increase consumer confidence and
some bubble bloggers are spinning the truth hoping real estate
will crash and burn. Additionally, some websites attempt attempt to guesstimate your home's value, however, they're very poor at determining market directionality.
This leaves the general public
with no vehicle for gathering 'just
the facts'.
Consequently,
this
website
was
created
for the
average joe, so he or she could easily look at their local
market and make a more informed real estate decision.
So why do this for free? Well the website does generate a small amount of revenue in three ways:
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Advertiser
Support
- Purchases
of Ad-Free Reports
- Donations (top)
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How can I get my blog added to your links list? |
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Why do you only publish quarterly reports? - Will you publish monthly reports? |
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Presently, the number one reason is time. Additionally, other than major metros, most cities don't have enough sales data in order to accurately analyze the local real estate market on a monthly basis.
However, depending up this site's success, thebubblebuster.com may begin publishing monthly reports on the 20 largest US metros in near future. If you live in a major metro and would like a custom monthly report, visit our Services section. (top) |
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How can I send you feedback or ideas on how to improve the site? |
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Send an email to analysisguy@gmail.com (top) |
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How can I advertise on this site? |
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The easiest way to click on the "Advertise on this site" link under most of the Google ads. Send an email to analysisguy@gmail.com for more specifics. (top) |
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In what order should I read the analysis / information? |
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thebubblebuster.com recommends users go through the information numerically in a page 1-4 format. Additionally, each city report has a navigation bar that mirrors the page 1-4 format. All city reports follow the format of:
- Page 1 = Summary
- Page 2 = History
- Page 3 = Peaks & Troughs
- Page 4 = Forecasts (top)
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Is it true about thebubblebuster.com t-shirt? |
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Yes, it's true. You can get more details on an old blog post. (top) |
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When will the next quarter’s report be available? |
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thebubblebuster.com releases quarterly reports in 90 day intervals. Quarterly reports are typically made available about 45-60 days after the quarter has ended. This ensures that all end-of-quarter data is available. An example, is that Q1:2007 reports should be made available around June 1, 2007. (top) |
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What is your preferred internet browser? |
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thebubblebuster.com is most compatible with Google's Firefox browser. (top)
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Why is last quarter's reports slightly different than this quarter's? |
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thebubblebuster.com data is continuously revised causing a constant change in past information. This
action translates to continuously better information. The revisions most greatly affect recent quarters and lessen
significantly over time. Consequently, please be aware that this methodology may generate discrepancies if
comparing one quarter’s report versus another.
Additionally, beginning in Q4:2006 thebubblebuster.com changed its source for inflation. For more information visit our Sources & Definitions page. (top) |
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Do you use average or median? - What's the difference between an average or median? |
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thebubblebuster.com now exclusively uses the median. This methodology translates to better data as the average can more easily be skewed by abnormal data (i.e. high interest rates of the late 1970s and early 1980s, multimillion dollar sale in a smaller city, etc.).
Average (or arithmetic mean) is the sum of all measurements divided by the number of observations in the data set. Whereas median is the middle value that separates the higher half from the lower half of the data set. (top)
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