National home prices have officially reached new post-bubble lows (seasonally-adjusted) according to the January 2012 Case-Shiller Home Price Index. From Standard and Poors: Data through November 2011, released today by S&P Indices for its S&P/Case-Shiller1 Home Price Indices … showed declines of 1.3% for both the 10- and 20-City Composites in November over October. For [...]
January 26, 2012
Interesting graph comparing Japanese home prices to the Case-Shiller index before and after the housing bubbles burst. Hat-tip Kevin Depew:
January 16, 2012
Yesterday, Burbed had a guest post from Greg Fielding on Bay Area Case-Shiller tiered data (it’s a reprint of his article from this site). This is my reply to it, which originally appeared on Burbed in a slightly different form with far more in-jokes than I’ll subject you to here. In case you haven’t been reading any [...]
January 4, 2012
Following up on the latest Case-Shiller Home Price Index report for the Bay Area, let’s break down index into top, middle, and lower tiers. The result shows two distinctly different markets since the price lows in the Spring of 2009. Just as Wall Street has diverged from Main Street, high-end neighborhoods are enjoying a different [...]
January 3, 2012
Bay Area home prices are continuing to fall, according to the October Case-Shiller home price index. Standard & Poors reports: Data through October 2011, released today by S&P Indices for its S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices, showed decreases of 1.1% and 1.2% for the 10- and 20-City Composites in October [...]
October 25, 2011
For the months of June, July, and August, U.S. home prices fell 3.8% from 2010 levels, according to the Case-Shiller 20-city composite index. From Standard & Poors: New York, October 25, 2011 – Data through August 2011, released today by S&P Indices for its S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices, [...]
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January 31, 2012
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