First American CoreLogic Releases March 2008 LoanPerformance House Price Index
First American CoreLogic a member of The First American Corporation family of companies, today announced the release of its March 2008 LoanPerformance Home Price Index (HPI).
The LoanPerformance HPI provides a comprehensive set of monthly home price indices and median sales prices covering 7,523 ZIP codes, 957 Core Based Statistical Areas (CBSA) and 670 counties located in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The indices, which are the most comprehensive available in the industry, are reported to clients five weeks after each full month ends.
76 Percent Of U.S. ZIP Codes Tracked Indicate Decreasing Property Values
“Of the 7,472 ZIP codes tracked by the LoanPerformance HPI, home prices in 5,691 (76.16 percent) of these ZIP codes have decreased over the last three months,” said Damien Weldon, vice president, collateral and prepayment analytics for First American CoreLogic, “Year-over-year, however, just 4,028 (53.91 percent) of the ZIP codes we track indicate decreasing property values,” added Weldon.
| 3 and 12-Month Change By Top CBSAs (Core Based Statistical Areas) as of December 2007 | ||
| 3 Month | 12 Month | |
| Change | Change | |
| Austin-Round Rock, TX (Metropolitan) | 0.91% | 8.09% |
| New York-White Plains-Wayne, NY-NJ (Metropolitan) | 0.61% | -0.35% |