J.D. over at Get Rich Slowly posted the following visualization of the real estate “roller-coaster ride” that is sweeping America:
http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2007/04/06/the-real-estate-roller-coaster-literally/
Last summer I shared a graph of American home values from 1890 to present. I found it alarming: ![[Home prices have risen more sharply in the past ten years than at any other time since 1890.]](http://www.getrichslowly.org/images/homepricesS.jpg "Headed for a fall?")
Click image to view larger version in a new window. Graph © NYT. This graph was taken from a New York Times article entitled “Read Between All Those For Sale Signs†[reg. required] by David Leonhardt and Vikas Bajaj. Now the folks at Speculative Bubble have decided to dramatize this graph by — what else? — plotting it inside the game Roller Coaster Tycoon. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUldGc06S3U] This video is scary, especially for those of who us who have purchased homes in the past few years, but I continue to take comfort in the fact that other graphs of the bubble aren’t quite so alarming.
![[Home prices have risen more sharply in the past ten years than at any other time since 1890.]](http://www.getrichslowly.org/images/homepricesL.gif "Headed for a fall?")