By Dennis Norman, on August 31st, 2010
Dennis Norman
This morning S&P/Case-Shiller Index report for the 2nd quarter of 2010 was released showing that the home prices improved slightly over a year ago in 17 of the 20 Metro Area’s their reports cover.
The Case-Shiller Home Prices Indices showed an increase of 4.4 percent in home prices in 2nd quarter after a decline [...]
By Dennis Norman, on April 27th, 2010
Dennis Norman
This morning the S&P/Case-Shiller Index report for February was released showing that, for the first time since December, 2006, the annual rates of change for their two composite home-price indices were positive. The 10-City Composite is up 1.4 percent from a year before and the 20-City Composite is up 0.6 percent from the [...]
By Dennis Norman, on March 30th, 2010
Dennis Norman
Annual Rates of Decline In Home Prices Improving
This morning the S&P/Case-Shiller Index report for January was released showing that home prices in their 10 city and 20 city composite indexes decreased from December, the 10-city index was down 0.2 percent and the 20-city index down 0.4 percent. The 10-city January index was exactly even with [...]
By Dennis Norman, on January 26th, 2010
Dennis Norman
This morning the S&P/Case-Shiller Index report for November was released showing that home prices in their 10 city and 20 city composite indexes decreased 0.2 percent from October. The indexes include the major metropolition areas in the U.S. (details for metros included are in chart that follows).
This marks the tenth month of improved [...]
By Dennis Norman, on November 24th, 2009
Dennis Norman
This morning the S&P/Case-Shiller Index report for September was released showing that home prices in the US increased in 3rd quarter 2009 by 3.1 percent (seasonally adjusted) from 2nd quarter. The 3rd quarter index shows a 8.9 percent decline from a year ago, however this is a marked improvement from the 14.7 decline [...]
By Dennis Norman, on October 27th, 2009
Dennis Norman
This morning the S&P/Case-Shiller Index report for August was released showing that home prices in the 20 cities covered by their report fell 11.3 percent in August from a year ago. This is a smaller year over year decline than July when the index showed a 13.3 percent drop in home prices from a year earlier [...]
By Dennis Norman, on September 29th, 2009
According to the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, home prices in July declined 12.8 percent from a year ago in their 10-city composite and 13.3 percent in their 20-city composite. On a positive note, all 20 metro areas showed an improvement in the annual rates of decline when comparing July to June.
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By Dennis Norman, on July 28th, 2009
Today the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices report was released which showed that, although still negative, the annual rate of decline of the 10-City and 20-City Composites improved for the fourth consecutive month in 2009.
The 10-City and 20-City Composites declined 16.8% and 17.1%, respectively, in May compared to the same month last year. These values are improvements [...]
By Dennis Norman, on January 1st, 2009
By: Dennis Norman
If you live in Los Angeles California or Orlando Florida, then the answer unfortunately is yes. However if you live in St. Louis Missouri, Louisville Kentucky, Boston Massachusetts, Houston Texas, Greenville South Carolina or any of dozens of metropolitan areas around the country the answer is no. So why then, for the past 2 days has the media been [...]
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