CERF’s U.S. Home Price forecast ranked single most accurate California Lutheran University economists Matthew Fienup and Dan Hamilton have been named as recipients of a 2024 Crystal Ball Award for the Fannie Mae Home Price Expectations Survey (formerly the the Zillow Home Price Expectations Survey and the Case-Shiller Home Price Expectations Survey). Fienup and Hamilton, both… Read more

February 20, 2025 (original version) March 11, 2025 (updated) The Socio-Economic Importance of Housing A year ago, I outlined a variety of social and economic impacts from housing in the essay “Housing and Growth”. A link to the full essay is here.  To review, I provide a list of the socioeconomic impacts here: Housing is… Read more