Eye On Housing
Standard and Poor’s reported that house prices rose in March. According to the most recent release, the S&P/Case-Shiller House Price Index – National Index grew by 10.2% on a year-over-year not seasonally adjusted basis. Following 19 consecutive months of year-over-year declines, house prices registered their tenth consecutive year-over-year increase in March. House price growth in Phoenix had the largest annual… Read More ›
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House Price Growth Is Accelerating
Standard and Poor’s reported that house prices rose in February. According to the most recent release, the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index – 20 City Composite grew by 9.3% on a year-over-year not seasonally adjusted basis. Following 20 consecutive months of year-over-year declines, house prices registered their ninth consecutive year-over-year increase in February. Year-over-year house price growth has been generally widespread…. Read More ›
House Price Increases Widespread
January was the second consecutive month-over-month increase in house prices and the eighth consecutive year-over-year increase. According to the most recent release by Standard and Poor’s, the S&P/Case-Shiller 20-City Composite House Price Index rose by 0.1% on a not seasonally adjusted monthly basis and the 10-City Index rose by 0.2% on a not seasonally adjusted monthly basis. In the 12… Read More ›
Case-Shiller and FHFA House Price Indexes – 2012 Closes With Solid Gains
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) and S&P/Case-Shiller (CS) released home price indexes for the end of 2012 today. The monthly FHFA national indexes were up 0.6% for the month (December over November, seasonally adjusted), 1.4% for the quarter (average fourth quarter months over average third quarter months, seasonally adjusted) and 5.9% for the year (December 2012 over December 2011,… Read More ›
Case-Shiller Monthly House Price Indexes – It’s Time To Talk About Seasonal Adjustment
The S&P/Case-Shiller (CS) monthly home price indexes covering the 10 city and 20 city composites, and the component cities were released today for October. Both the 10 and 20 city composites posted small declines for October over September (both -0.1% on a non-seasonally adjusted basis – S&P’s headline measure), after decelerating from peak growth rates in June. The monthly growth… Read More ›
Case-Shiller House Price Indexes – Phoenix? Really?
The S&P/Case-Shiller (CS) monthly home price indexes for the 10 city and 20 city composites, and the component cities were released last week for August. The usual coverage of this release includes how far up or down the composites are compared to last month and last year, and how many of the component cities are up or down and how… Read More ›
Case-Shiller and FHFA House Price Indexes – Solid 2012 Gains So Far
Both S&P/Case-Shiller (CS) and the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) released monthly home price indexes for July today. Both organizations reported solid gains in house prices continuing so far this year. The CS 10 and 20 city composite indexes posted 1.5% and 1.6% gains respectively in July over June, bringing the year to date increases to 6.3% and 6.9% (on… Read More ›
Home Prices Continue Positive Trend
The Case-Shiller indexes of home prices increased again when compared to the previous month or the previous year. Both the 10-city and 20-city seasonally-adjusted (SA) indexes rose 1% and 0.9% respectively from May to June 2012. This is the fifth straight month for steady increases in the SA indexes. Since January, the 10-city and 20-city indexes have risen 3.5% and… Read More ›
Case-Shiller House Price Indexes for May – Encouraging Signals
Tuesday’s release of the Case-Shiller house price indexes includes data for May for the monthly 20 and 10 city composite indexes and the component city indexes (the national index is released quarterly). Both composites increased in May from April by 2.2 percent and all 20 component indexes increased for the month, ranging from 0.4 percent in Detroit to 4.5 percent… Read More ›
Case-Shiller House Price Indexes – New Lows Or Stabilization?
Both. This month’s release of the Case-Shiller house price indexes includes March values for the monthly 20 and 10 city composite indexes (and component cities) and first quarter values for the national index. The national (not seasonally adjusted) index shows prices down 2.0 percent in the first quarter of 2012 from the fourth quarter of 2011, and down 1.9 percent… Read More ›