June 8 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. housing prices are in the midst of a decline that may last for years, according to Robert J. Shiller, a finance professor at Yale University.
Shiller, who helped create home-price indexes bearing his name, wrote in a New York Times story yesterday that declines in real estate tend to be relatively long-lasting. As an example, he mentioned land prices in Japan’s major cities, which fell for 15 straight years after a 1980s housing bubble burst.
The CHART OF THE DAY shows what happened in Japan, based on data compiled by the country’s Real Estate Institute. Prices in the Tokyo area and in five other cities -- Kobe, Kyoto, Nagoya, Osaka and Yokohama -- sank 76 percent from 1990 through 2005. (more)
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