Today Post::DataQuick, January, 2005 to Present

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As one commentor over at CalculatedRisk said, “it is nice to see marin get bitchslapped“.

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Note: I forgot to mention that these data points are year-over-year percent (de)appreciation.

Update February 22, 2009: Due to the incredulity of one commentor regarding the previous chart, I made the following chart using the same DataQuick source:

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For the Marin data series in the above chart, peak (June, 2007) to trough (January, 2009) is a -45.4% decline. For the Bay Area series, it’s a -54.9% decline.