The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) released monthly home price indexes for August today. House prices nationally increased 0.7% from July levels on a seasonally adjusted basis. This brings the cumulative gain for 2012 to 4.6% after being essentially flat through 2011. Around the country, six of the nine Census divisions posted modest gains in August from July, ranging from… Read More ›
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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 ›
FHFA House Price Indexes – Broad Based Increases
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) released house price index results for the second quarter of 2012 today. House prices increased in most parts of the country, both on a quarterly and annual basis, and are at or above pre-boom trend levels in almost three quarters of the states. Today’s release includes monthly house price indexes for the US 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 ›
A Good Day for House Prices
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) released monthly house price indexes for the US and the nine Census divisions for May today. Nationally, house prices rose 0.8% from April on a seasonally adjusted basis and 1.8% on an unadjusted basis. Seven of the nine Census divisions rose in May, with increases ranging from 0.5% to 1.7% seasonally adjusted. House prices… 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 ›
FHFA House Price Indexes – US, State and Metro Area Data
This month’s release from the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) includes monthly house price indexes for the US and the 9 Census divisions for March, and quarterly house price indexes for the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and metropolitan statistical areas for the first quarter of 2012. The national FHFA purchase-only seasonally adjusted index shows house prices up 1.8… Read More ›
Video: NAHB Senior Economist Robert Denk Discusses Latest Improving Markets Index Report
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House Price Reports for February – Too Close To Call
Both S&P/Case-Shiller (CS) and the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) released monthly home price indexes for February today. The FHFA released data for the US and the 9 Census divisions, based strictly on February transactions. CS released data for their 10 and 20 city composites, and the component cities, based on three month averages including data from December through February…. Read More ›
Case-Shiller House Prices – A Tale of 20 Cities
The S&P Case-Shiller Home Price Indexes were released today with data through January for the 10 and 20 city composites (and component cities). The national index, which is calculated quarterly, and the Charlotte, NC metropolitan area, due to delays in data reporting, were not included in the release. The composites were both down 0.8 percent from December, according to the… Read More ›