by Associated Press Published: December 28,2010
Tags: home prices
Home prices are dropping in the nation’s largest cities and are expected to fall through next year, with the worst declines coming in areas with high numbers of foreclosures. The Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller 20-city home price index fell 1.3 percent in October from September. All cities recorded monthly price declines. Atlanta recorded the largest decline. [...] [...]
New-home sales prices have reached an historic low, based on records kept as far back as 1963 – and further declines are forecasted. The information comes from the Census Bureau’s American Housing Survey. The study, which examines the housing market strictly from the view of homeowners rather than from real estate or mortgage industry perspective, provided [...] [...]
Colorado Springs home prices, including distressed sales, increased by 2.73 percent in June 2010 compared to June 2009, according to the CoreLogic Home Price Index released today. The result is still less than CoreLogic’s May’s year-over-year HPI, which coincided with the expiration of the Home Buyer Tax Credit was 3.64 percent . Excluding distressed transactions, year-over-year HPI [...] [...]
To begin the year, there’s good and not-so-good-news regarding home prices in the Pikes Peak region. The area compared favorably with the rest of the country, based on First American CoreLogic’s loan performance home price index. Based on the latest HPI results reported during December, home prices had continued their year-over-year decline nationally through October [...] [...]
Once again local home values profiled favorably when compared to Denver or to other states, at least based on results of the latest Standard & Poor’s/Case-Schiller Home Prices Index survey. Denver saw a 5.1 percent decline in home values from January 2008 to January 2009, but the single-digit result paled in comparison to the other [...] [...]