U.S. Home Prices Fall 0.8% From March To April
U.S. home prices fell 0.8 percent on a seasonally-adjusted basis from March to April, according to OFHEO’s monthly House Price Index. For the 12 months ending in April, U.S. prices fell 4.6 percent. As April 2007 was the peak of the monthly HPI, 4.6 percent is also the total fall from the peak.
For the nine Census Divisions, seasonally-adjusted monthly price changes from March to April ranged from -2.0 percent in the Pacific Census Division (which includes Alaska, Hawaii, Washington, Oregon and California) to 0.9 percent in the East South Central Division (which includes Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama).
Record Declines in Home Prices Continue in November
New York, January 29, 2008 – Data through November 2007, released today by Standard & Poor’s for its S&P/Case-Shiller® Home Price Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices, show broadbased declines in the prices of existing single family homes across the United States, marking the 11th consecutive month of negative annual returns and a full two years of decelerating returns.
