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Standard and Poor's has released February Case-Shiller Home Price data... S&P/Case-Shiller provides two monthly indices which track the price path of single family homes in a 10-City and a 20-City data base. Each index combines matched price pairs from sales of individual homes. All indices are based on a value of 100 which represents home prices in January 2000. A current index value of 150 percent would translate to a 50 percent appreciation in price since that date. S&P/Case-Shiller provides...

Robert Shiller , a well-known economist and professor at Yale University, said the ongoing financial crisis could last for years. He said blaming monetary policy for the crisis is simplistic and misleading, and called for three solutions to prevent a...

The U.S. Council of Mayors released a devastating report on the impact on member communities of the ongoing housing market problems. The report, prepared by Global Insight, an economic forecasting firm, was presenting at a meeting of the Conference attended by mortgage industry and community groups.

The report projects that the foreclosure crisis will result in...

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