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by jimrandomh 3055 days ago
This says the price of mousing in SF has only increased by 78% since 2000. I spot-checked that, and the first alternate source of data I could find, https://www.paragon-re.com/trend/san-francisco-home-prices-m... , says the increase has been much larger.
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It looks like the Paragon data is nominal dollars but the Economist adjusted to account for inflation. If you flip the Economist chart to nominal dollars, it's a +158% difference, so that's a good chunk of the difference but not all.
It is unclear which definition of "San Francisco" they are using. Is it just the city of San Francisco, the San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area, or the San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland, CA Combined Statistical Area? I would guess that since San Jose is not listed separately, they are using the CSA, which includes a lot of outlying areas.