The S&P Case-Shiller home price index for Q1 continued to deteriorate with the 20-city composite index posting a record annual decline of 14.1%. In March, the index also declined by an annualized 14.4%. The Case-Shiller index has fallen every month since peaking in July 2006. "The steep downturn in residential...
The S&P Case-Shiller home price index continued its sharp decline in February as both the 10-city and 20-city composite indexes posted record annual declines in excess of 12.5%. The 20-city composite index, which tracks the price path of typical single-family homes in 20 metropolitan areas, fell by 12...
The Standard & Poor's S&P/ Case-Shiller Home Price Indices (HPI) for January which were released on Tuesday are reporting further bad news on the home value front. The HPI which tracks, in two different indices, 10 and 20 metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) across the United States, reported...
It's not exactly like waiting for Christmas or the first day of summer vacation, but we do look forward to the release of our favorite housing report each quarter; the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) House Price Index . The HPI uses information from Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae ...
Unlike the see-saw figures on housing sales and house prices that come out monthly from the National Association of Realtors and the Census Bureau, the House Price Index (HPI) published quarterly by the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) takes the longer view. The HPI for the fourth...