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Denver home prices just 4.5 percent below ’06 peak

Denver’s home values are only 4.5 percent below their peak levels in 2006, according to the SP/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices and accompanying analyses released this week. Low interest rates and limited inventory helped lift Denver home values 9.2 percent in … Continue reading

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Election and Housing: Is Your Home’s Value Better Off?

Are we better off today than we were four years ago? That is the constant question on the eve of yet another tight presidential race. From the perspective of home prices, the answer is, as always, it depends on where … Continue reading

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How to Play the Housing ‘Boom’

Housing boom? Not yet, but anybody who plays the stock market knows, you get in before the boom, not during it. That is why the stocks of the home builders [XHB  Loading...      ()   ] are up triple … Continue reading

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Is Housing Risen From Ashes? ‘Industry Has Come Back’

Economists are saying it, and now even some Americans are saying it. After falling to depths not seen since the Great Depression, the U.S. housing market may finally be rising from the ashes.  It may not seem like a lot, … Continue reading

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Why Rise in Home Prices May Not Mean Much—Yet

Average home prices through May increased for the second month in a row, according to the latest SP/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, which measure both the top ten and top twenty housing markets in the US. Prices are still down from … Continue reading

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Have Home Prices Hit Bottom?

For the first time in seven months, home prices as recorded on the SP/Case Shiller Home price Indices saw month-to month gains. The press release even referred to it as a “spike.” A 1.3 percent rise for the 10 and … Continue reading

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Home Prices Hit Lows, but ‘We See Signs of Hope’

All three “headline composites” of the latest and widely watched SP/Case Shiller home price indices ended the first quarter of 2012 at new post-crisis lows. But one of the authors of the indices, Robert Shiller, told CNBC Tuesday: “We have … Continue reading

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Home Prices Hit Lows, But ‘We See Signs of Hope’

All three “headline composites” of the latest and widely watched SP/Case Shiller home price indices ended the first quarter of 2012 at new post-crisis lows. But one of the authors of the indices, Robert Shiller, told CNBC Tuesday: “We have … Continue reading

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Mixed Housing Data Point to Uneven Recovery

new numbers from the housing market confirm that a warm spring did in fact pull sales forward, but the new activity was not enough to bring home prices out of their decline significantly. Sales of newly built homes plunged over … Continue reading

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S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices Indicate Declines in Home Prices in Fourth …

(SOURCE SP Indices) NEW YORK – Data through October 2011, released today by SP Indices for its SP/Case-Shiller[1] Home Price Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices, showed decreases of 1.1% and 1.2% for the 10- and 20-City Composites in … Continue reading

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