Chart of the Day: Housing Prices Since WWII

Courtesy Digg - Business & Finance  Wed, 08/25/2010 - 03:15

That chart in this post, constructed from Case-Shiller data, shows the reality: home prices have actually been pretty steady over time.

In fact, if you look at a fifty-year period after World War II, home prices were absolutely steady.So here's the question: why do people think that home price appreciation is a law of nature, when it so clearly is.

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