In 2011, The University of St. Thomas Opus College of Business started producing a report called the "Minneapolis St. Paul Residential Real Estate Index." I had heard about it at some point last year but didn't pay much attention. Then this year when I saw the report's authors being quoted in the local news media and the numbers they were reciting, a strange feeling hit me. I had seen these numbers before. I then did some research and looked over the entire contents of several months of their reports and … [Read more...]