Real Estate data sources

Here’s a summary of some major sources of data on the US real estate market.
Housing price indexes are available from the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (federal agency, part of HUD), and also from Standard&Poor’s. The OFHEO and S&P data are apparently calculated using similar, but not identical, formulas; Calculated Risk has a [...]

Why can’t we all do this sort of analysis?

Professor James Hamilton at UC San Diego comments on Econbrowser about Ben Bernanke and the current economic situation. Quote:
We’ve seen some quite remarkable movements in commodity markets the last two months. The graph below plots the price of 14 that I could get my hands on quickly through Webstract, with each price normalized at [...]