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Would you have seen it? · Case 006

Real Estate · Metro housingFirst quarter 2010

Miami, 2010

The Brickell district of Miami seen from above, condominium towers running down to the bay
Miami’s Brickell skyline photographed on 6 February 2010, inside the quarter this record is set in. Photograph: Averette · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons File page ↗

Miami housing has already fallen sharply after the financial crisis. You can buy, keep renting, or wait for clearer evidence that the market has stopped falling.

  • The FHFA all-transactions metro index stands at 195.88 in Q1 2010.
  • A metro index mixes many properties and includes appraisals; it cannot price the home in front of you.
  • Financing, insurance, taxes, maintenance, and transaction costs may matter more than the headline index.
What would you have done?

Evidence ledger

Sources & calculation notes

  1. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis / FHFA — Miami all-transactions house-price index ↗
  2. Federal Housing Finance Agency — House Price Index datasets ↗