Posts Tagged ‘case shiller’The State of the Markets – April 5, 2010This post first appeared in the April edition of: Cirios Trends: In Search of Real Estate Opportunities. For 12 months now, the Case Shiller Home Price Index – the most widely watched home price indicator – has been hinting that the housing market has at the very least stopped getting worse. In February’s Cirios Trends, [...] Housing Perspective: July Case/Shiller Home Price IndexThe housing market got another boost this morning, as July’s S&P Case/Shiller Home Price Index registered its biggest monthly increase in almost four years. The 20-city index rose 1.2% in July from the month before, the biggest jump since October 2005, according to Bloomberg. Even though the monthly price figures have been increasing now for [...] Housing Perspective: June S&P Case Shiller Home Price IndexBroad measures of home prices continue to show improvements, as the S&P/Case Shiller Home Price Index registered its second straight monthly increase. According to the Wall Street Journal, Case Shiller’s 20-city index ticked up on a quarterly basis 1.4% from the three months ending May 31. 2 cities still showed month-over-month declines, woeful Detroit and [...] Keeping It Real Estate: Collapse in Luxury Market More Revealing Than It AppearsThis post first appeared on Minyanville. It only took 18 months, but the fact that the US luxury real estate market is falling apart at the seams is finally starting to sink in. Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal chronicled the plight of high-end housing markets, as formerly wealthy homeowners are falling behind on their mortgages at [...] State of the Markets – 8/3/2009This post first Appeared in the August edition of Cirios Trends: Getting to the Bottom of the Housing Market If there is a single trend we have been focused on here at Cirios throughout 2009, it’s the divergence between high-end real estate markets and broad measures of home prices. That is, even as recent housing [...] Housing Perspective: May S&P Case Shiller Home Price IndexThe housing market got another piece of “good” data today, as the S&P Case Shiller Home Price Index registered its first month-over-month uptick in almost 3 years, according to Bloomberg. The increase was nominal, to be sure, at a mere 0.5% from the prior month, but it was an increase nonetheless. As can be seen [...] Housing Perspective: April Case Shiller Home Price IndexThis morning, the S&P Case/Shiller Home Price Index, which measures prices in 20 US metropolitan regions, registered an 18.1% decline in prices. And for as bad as this sounds, its actually the best reading in 6 months. According to Bloomberg, one of the index’s designers, Yale economist Robert Shiller said he saw “striking improvement in [...] Housing Perspective: December Case-Shiller Home Price IndexBy ANDREW JEFFERY The broken record rambles on: Home prices keep falling. The latest reading from the S&P/Case Shiller Home Price Index showed another record decline, as prices tumbled 18.5% from a year ago. And again, the worst performing metro regions were out west, with Phoenix, Las Vegas and San Francisco leading the way to [...] Straight up Statistics: How Random is Your Sample?By AUSTIN NELSON How many times have you read a statistic like this one: “57% of Americans believe that the economy will do X in the next Y years”? Ever wondered how in the heck they can say something like that? Do they poll every American and ask them what they think? The answer, of [...] Housing Perspective: November Case-Shiller Home Price IndexBy ANDREW JEFFERY In contrast to the silver lining of higher-than-expected home sales tallied in yesterday’s release of Existing Home Sales, this morning’s Case-Shiller November Home Price Index registered the worst year-over-year performance on record. Property values in November 2008 tumbled 18.2% from the prior year and 2.2% from the previous month. As measured by [...] |