Today’s Case-Shiller Index showed Bay Area home prices generally holding flat from November, 2011 through February, 2012. During those four months, the index held between 128.07 and 128.84, roughly the same as it did back in November-December of 2000. Nationally, from Standard & Poors: “While there might be pieces of good news in this report, [...]

We’ve seen some seriously conflicting housing headlines recently… The data looks bad: Case-Shiller: Home Prices Continued to Fall in January Case-Shiller March Breakdown for San Francisco Bay Area RadarLogic: Housing Bottom Still Out of Sight Existing Home Sales Slowed in February Just How Weak Is The Demand For New Housing? The median price of Bay Area homes sold in [...]

Following up on this morning’s national Case-Shiller home price report, here is a breakdown for the San Francisco Bay Area. Prices declined from a reading of 128.83 in December to 128.00 in January. Bay Area home prices are now roughly back to where they were between November and December, 2000.

Both the 10-city and 20-city composite indexes saw home prices decline 0.8% from December to January. From Standard and Poors: Data through January 2012, released today by S&P Indices for its S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices, showed annual declines of 3.9% and 3.8% for the 10- and 20-City Composites, respectively. [...]

Following up on this morning’s Case-Shiller post, here is a closer look at the San Francisco Bay Area housing market, according to the Case-Shiller index. On a seasonally-adjusted basis, home prices actually rose slightly from November’s reading of 128.79 to 128.81 in December. Price-improvement was across-the-board, with all price tiers showing strength at the end [...]