Product Mix

Keith Davis | October 16, 2009

Talk to a marketer and you will hear this term frequently: “Product Mix”. It refers to the breakdown of a market and precisely what is selling. This then allows companies to focus on what to manufacture. Imagine a computer company determining whether to build desktop or laptop computers. A quick look at the product mix [...]

Albemarle Price Per Square Foot

Keith Davis | June 12, 2009

As requested from a reader on the Bubble Blog, I have pulled 2009 prices for detached homes in Albemarle County by month. I have to say, I don’t think there is much to see here. There have been a total of 213 closed transactions in the county of detached homes through May of this year. [...]

The City By Month

Keith Davis | June 4, 2009

For about two years now, I have been creating reports on various neighborhoods throughout the city and subdivisions in Albemarle County. One of the things I have done is to look at homes by the price per square foot, hoping to minimize as much as possible any bias toward the product mix of homes being [...]

What Homeowners Could Learn From Developers

Keith Davis | April 15, 2009

I remember sitting in one of my development classes and wondering what my professor was talking about with land holding costs and development projects. The scenario was this: A family owned development firm buys a 50 acre tract for $500,000 and holds it for 25 years, at which time the next generation of leadership in [...]

Case Shiller going down …. OFHEO going up???

Keith Davis | April 1, 2009

I just read an interesting post on SeekingAlpha that discusses the two “main” housing indices and the fact that one is up and one is down. Why the difference?
Take a peek here. Its interesting.
I’d love to think that the OFHEO is right, but I haven’t seen anything else to support that thought.
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Keith is a self diagnosed data geek. With an MBA from UNC (Kenan Flagler Business School) Keith finds himself always looking for empirical evidence to explain the market around us. He has worked representing buyers and sellers as well as local builders. His background is in start-up companies, from which he brings his desire to find new ways in which technology can improve the buying and selling process for his clients.He lives in the City of Charlottesville with his wife, Krista, and two young children.


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