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The staying power of Case-Shiller, a marquee housing metric

by Amy Scott and Maria Hollenhorst

Apr 6, 2022

It’s not the most timely home price indicator, but it does have advantages, including mapping prices over long periods.

Homes line a Southern California street in 2003. An approach for tracking house prices developed by economists Karl Case and Robert Shiller in the 1980s remains an important market indicator today.

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