Comments for Commerce Department Issues Secret Report Showing Plunge in Housing Vacancy Rates at http://www.cepr.net , comment 1 to 2 out of 2 comments http://www.cepr.net Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:33:20 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/commerce-department-issues-secret-report-showing-plunge-in-housing-vacancy-rates#comment-17783 Ownership and rental units flip back and forth all the time (one third of rental units are single family homes), so the distinction doesn't really matter much for the overall market. A vacant unit is classified as one or the other based on how the owner intends to occupy it. This is a point that I should have made in the piece. btw, the bubble didn't peak until the summer of 2006. - Dean Sat, 28 Jul 2012 06:00:12 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/commerce-department-issues-secret-report-showing-plunge-in-housing-vacancy-rates#comment-17778 A quick definition of "vacancy rate on ownership units" would be helpful -- [i]a measure of properties empty and for sale[/i]? per Prashant Gopal. I don't see the Commerce Department's charts of ownership vacancy rates in 2001-2005 as warning of a housing bubble in real time. It was only after the bubble began to deflate -- Fall 2005 -- and months-to-sell started rising that vacancy rates took off. - ellen1910 Sat, 28 Jul 2012 04:55:30 +0100