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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Paul Kern who wrote (120398)5/2/2008 11:37:53 PM
From: Jim McMannisRead Replies (1) | Respond to of 306849
 
Home-price data has its flaws

marketwatch.com

Market anomalies painting skewed picture, index producers acknowledge

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Commonly cited measures of U.S. home prices are overstating the degree to which the vast majority of Americans' home values have declined in the last year, producers of two of the most widely tracked indexes acknowledged this week....



To: Paul Kern who wrote (120398)5/3/2008 1:46:34 PM
From: Peter VRespond to of 306849
 
Make sure you accurately assess their value. I'd use face value of the coupon, since cash value is usually 1/100 of a cent. I'm sure that face value is OK with GAAP for stuff accepted at the window these days.