NAR Chief Economist Answers Back

Author: Jay T. - The Editor

Posted on February 17, 2008 
Filed Under NAR - Forecasts

Ok, I’ll be the first to admit I haven’t always been exactly gentle with NAR’s Chief Economist Lawrence Yun.

But I really think Yun’s biggest problem is the mess he inherited from his predecessor David Lereah. Lereah was widely panned pretty much across the known universe. For Yun to have to step into that quagmire can not have been simple.

Don’t get me wrong, I think Yun as had his own moments of way too sunshiny pontifications, but he does at least look at times like he has a clue.

He’s recently begun posting a series of articles on a new page at Realtor.org called “Economist’s Commentary“.

If you subscribe to the NAR Research RSS feed, you can get Economist Commentary plopped right into your reader.

Jim Duncan over at RealCentralVA thinks this latest offering, “is exactly what the NAR needs to do“.

And I’m inclined to agree with him.

(NOTE: I am NOT saying this is ALL they need to do…)

Why not put these commentaries in a blog and let people leave comments?

Others Opine: Scott Brunner (VAR CEO) discusses this earlier today. (that’s what I get for being 987 posts behind in my feed reader.)
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3 Responses to “NAR Chief Economist Answers Back”

  1. Athol Kay on February 17th, 2008 6:07 pm

    Agree JT. It seems we’ve had a general movement in a hopeful direction from NAR in the last week.

  2. David Jackson on March 7th, 2008 9:59 am

    Check Out: http://lawrenceyunwatch.blogspot.com

  3. Yun to the Slaughterhouse: Not this time… : NAR Wisdom on April 30th, 2008 7:47 am

    […] and the piles of real estate statistics the NAR generates. One just has to read many of his “Economists Commentaries” to see he does inject reality into many of his musings on the state of the housing […]

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