The Mourning of a Blog

An insightful blog went off the blogosphere after it led many of its visitors to safety in the middle of the US housing storm. After three years of a heated debate over the health of the housing market in the US, or the lack thereof, HousingPanic is no longer active. The blog master, Keith, pulled the plug on HousingPanic on November 5, 2008, a day after the election of Barack Obama to the White House. Keith opened a new blog he titled: "Soot and Ashes: Reinventing America After the Crash.".

In his farewell note, Keith wrote:

"Three years.

Ten million views.

6,000 posts.

Trillions lost.

A world economy in shambles.

And housing prices almost back to where we started.

HousingPANIC ends."

It was quite a ride indeed. HousingPanic was among the first blogs that sounded the housing alarm in 2005. Much of what was written by the blog master and posted by the contributors and the visitors became a reality: The housing bubble, the financial turmoil, the stock market crash, the demise of the GOP, the election of Obama...

I personnally enjoyed posting on that blog under a different name-- one of the reasons I stopped posting in my own blog for a few months! There are hundreds of blogs dealing with the US housing market, like Dr Housing Bubble, Patrick.net, etc, but the thing about HousingPanic is that it was down to earth. It said it all in a way that left no one out.

So long HP! and good luck to you Keith with your new blog.