Rental Vacancies
October 06, 2009 at 08:43 AM EDT
[Skip to the end] Karim writes: Rent is 30.5% of headline CPI and 39% of core CPI, a 1% rise in the rental vacancy rate typically leads to about a .7% decline in rent and a .25-0.30% fall in core CPI (with a lag). So rise in rental vacancy rate likely not entirely fed through to CPI [...]
