Whale Week 2013: Whale Week Day 5: Top Stories Across the Curbed Universe

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Renters Week 2012: Linkage: Renters Week Day Two Across the Curbed Universe

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Renters Week 2012: What $1,600 - $1,900 a Month Gets You Across San Francisco

× Like us and you'll find top breaking news in your Facebook newsfeed. Sign up for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox. Tuesday, November 13, 2012, by Sally Kuchar

Times are tough out there for a rental seeker, so we thought it best to wade through Craigslist this week so you don't have to. Each day this week, we'll be handpicking select apartments that are up for grabs within a certain price range.

Unlike yesterday's short list of places to rent between $1,000 and $1,500 a month, today's list actually has a one and two bedroom sprinkled into the list. But yes, studios do dominate the map of rentals available between $1,600 and $1,900. All of the apartments we handpicked for you have at least one or two desirable features, like pets being allowed, dishwasher in the kitchen, that sort of thing. Onwards!

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Renters Week 2012: Linkage: Renters Week Day One Across the Curbed Universe

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Fencing Fail: Across the pond in Bristol, England,...

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[Cheesesteak without Hot Sauce] Philadelphia Regional Prices “Uneven” Across Region

This quarterly market report is provided by Dr. Kevin Gillen, an economist and Research Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute for Urban Research. He analyzes the Philadelphia and regional real estate markets through Econsult, an economics consulting firm based in Philadelphia PA that provides statistical & econometric analysis in support of litigation as well as business and public policy decision-makers. His results are published in a research paper called Philadelphia House Price Indices each quarter as a public service to the Philadelphia real estate community. Here’s his methodology.

Kevin does a great job parsing out the market and it is a pleasure to share his results on Matrix …Jonathan Miller

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Observations

“House value changes uneven across region; average decline is 1.7 percent.”

However, the magnitude of this decline has been quite different from one locality to another. In Philadelphia county, the typical home declined in value by an average of 4.2% in Q4. But in the 10 suburban counties surrounding Philadelphia, the average decline was a much more modest 0.8%. However, in both cases, the decline in house prices slowed from the previous quarter.

40% drop in sales since the expiration of the tax credit

16% drop in region’s average sales price since peak

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