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Boston Bubble Brief: The Real Story for MA - Sep 2008
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 4:09 pm GMT    Post subject: case-schiller for towns / zips? Reply with quote

Hi-

Of course, I gotta start with the observation that your work is fantastic.

I have a methodology question - or really a data availability question. Is it possible to do the same for individual towns or zips? eg, for Newton or Waltham or Brookline? I know that Case-Schiller only releases for major MSAs, but could they do more micro analysis? Could one of us do the same thing or do they already have massive infrastructure / IP in place to do the analysis, and it'd be ridiculous to rebuild to do for one region?

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 6:45 pm GMT    Post subject: Re: case-schiller for towns / zips? Reply with quote

john_ops wrote:
Of course, I gotta start with the observation that your work is fantastic.


Thanks.

john_ops wrote:

I have a methodology question - or really a data availability question. Is it possible to do the same for individual towns or zips? eg, for Newton or Waltham or Brookline? I know that Case-Schiller only releases for major MSAs, but could they do more micro analysis? Could one of us do the same thing or do they already have massive infrastructure / IP in place to do the analysis, and it'd be ridiculous to rebuild to do for one region?


This report actually uses data from The MAR rather than the S&P/Case-Shiller Index. However, I'll try to answer your question with regard to the S&P/Case-Shiller Index, since it is better.

It is indeed feasible to make your own homebrew Case-Shiller equivalent. Here is somebody who has done just that for San Diego and who has posted details on how to do it:

http://sdhpi.blogspot.com/2008/02/constructing-hpi.html

When I went to hear Professor Case talk a few weeks ago, he said that they buy their data for the Boston MSA from The Warren Group. I assume you could do the same. However, if you want to focus on a single town, using the registry of deeds might be almost as convenient and also much cheaper (as in free).

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