Not exact matches
An article in the Wall Street Journal points out that
over a 30 - year
period, the value
of an average, single - family
home grew 3.6 % annually, but the compound annual return on the S&P 500 for the
same time period was 11.1 %.
What's more, the square - footage
of the average Canadian
home has grown considerably
over the past 35 years, even though the average household size has fallen by a third in the
same time period.
When compared to 20 cases
of dominance aggression treated with conventional behavioral or other habit modification
over the
same time period, only 11 dogs improved > 25 % and
of the remaining 9 cases, 3 failed to improve and 3 were euthanized or placed in another
home.
The authors looked at ten years
of data on gas prices and compared it to the
home prices for
over 17,000 listings in the
same area
over the
same time period.
The Toronto Star's great bar graph in early May
of this year showed quite dramatically that
over the past several decades, single - family
home ownership was better than owning most stocks or bonds
over the
same period of time.
U.S.
home listing prices on realtor.com ® have increased 10 percent year
over year; while interest rates on a 30 - year fixed - rate mortgage have increased 28 basis points during the
same time period, increasing the monthly mortgage payment
of a median price
home by an additional $ 168 a month.
In October alone, 6,381
homes were sold in the Houston Real Estate Market, an increase
of 7.5 %
over the
same period of time last year.