FHFA Press Release- Washington, DC – U.S. house prices rose 0.8 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis from March to April, according to the Federal Housing…
CoreLogic’s data for January closed house sales (mostly November contracts) shows a year over year decline of 3.1% nationally. the month to month decline was…
MANY of the world’s financial and economic woes since 2008 began with the bursting of the biggest bubble in history. Never before had house prices risen so fast, for so long, in so many countries. Yet the bust has been much less widespread than th…
Home prices are highly seasonal, due to the different mix of homes that sell at different times of the year, but the latest reading for September shows home prices are under added pressure now; this is not just due to the high concentration of distr…
Dozens of interesting charts in this fact-filled commentary about the ongoing housing bust…..
This huge and growing surplus inventory of houses will probably depress prices considerably from here, perhaps another 20% over the next several years.
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Once again, we’re hearing the sales pitch “Now is the time to buy!”…
Home affordability returned to pre-bubble levels in a growing number of U.S. markets over the past year as price declines laid the groundwork for a housing recovery.
Data provi…
The Case Shiller House Price Indexes (CSI) for July showed another uptick, which got all the economists crowing again that the bottom is in on…
