Thursday, November 15, 2012

House Price Index


House prices 'fall by 3% in Scotland'
Assetz News
Scottish property prices have fallen by almost 3% since last year - the steepest fall in three years. LSL Property Services' Scotland House Price Index said the price of an average home in September was £143,406, 0.3% less than in August. And the ...
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House prices go up – but deposit loans on the way
Jersey Evening Post
His announcement came following a briefing on the latest Jersey House Price Index out today which shows that house prices have returned to a similar level as a year ago with the average price of a property in the third quarter of this year £403,000 ...
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Singapore Curbs to Slash Home Sales in 2013: Southeast Asia
Yahoo! Singapore News
The island-state's private residential property price index rose 0.6 percent to a record 208.2 points in the three months ended Sept. 30, according to government data. In prime districts, apartment prices gained 0.2 percent, compared with the 1 percent ...
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Income: how wealth managers can exploit residential property
Citywire.co.uk
... recognition that housing is not a short-term holding but a fixed-term investment for three, five or 10 years (offering a 3% yield per annum over a 10-year term, paid quarterly) and you get a formula-driven return based on the Halifax House Price ...
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Blackstone Sees Two-Year Window to Buy Houses: Mortgages
Businessweek
"With rising sales and a sustained downtrend in housing inventory, we're projecting the median existing-home price to rise 6 percent this year and 5 percent in 2013, with comparable gains in 2014," Molony said. "However, if housing construction doesn't ...
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Germany: House Price Index - Economy.com
Updated: 11/14/2012 5:42 AM. Actual: 5.3%. Analyst: Petr Zemcik in London. First Take German new-home prices rose 5.3% y/y in October, following a 6.1% y/y ...
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Housing Market Index


Bernanke Says Fed Will Do What It Can to Support Housing
Businessweek
While regulatory policy "will be important for restoring a fully functioning housing and mortgage market, the strength of the overall economic recovery is crucial as well," Bernanke said. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index declined 0.2 percent to 1,352.52 ...
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Business events and economic reports scheduled for the coming week
Washington Post
Nov 15, 2012 06:59 PM EST. AP. MONDAY, Nov. 19. WASHINGTON — National Association of Home Builders releases housing market index for November, 10 a.m.; National Association of Realtors releases existing home sales for October, 10 a.m.. Loading.
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Olympics Weakens Scottish Property Market
NuWire Investor
Prices of residential property in Scotland fell 0.3% in September as the market became a victim of a post Olympic slowdown, the latest LSL/Acadametrics index shows. The data also shows that housing transactions fell by 17% in September compared to the ...
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UPDATE 2-Canadian October home sales dip, latest sign of cooling
Reuters
Sales remained blow year-earlier levels in Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal, CREA said. "These results suggest that the Canadian housing market overall has returned to a more sustainable pace," Klump said. CREA's Home Price Index rose 3.6 percent in ...
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Real Estate Market Trends: A New Low for Mortgage Rates
Millionaire Corner
Interest rates have hit a record low for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages, according to data released today by Freddie Mac. In other real estate market trends, housing affordability improved in the third quarter of the year and rents are out pacing ...
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Resale housing market in Vancouver cooled last month
News1130
Vancouver posted the largest year-over-year price decrease among major cities. TD bank economist Sonya Gulati says "there is no such thing as a national housing market," adding "Greater Vancouver is already in the middle of its housing adjustment - the ...
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California Housing Market Continues Strong Performance in October, CAR ...
MarketWatch (press release)
California's housing inventory tightened in October, with the Unsold Inventory Index for existing, single-family detached homes dropping to 3.1 months, down from 3.7 months in September and a revised 5.5 months in October 2011. The index indicates the ...
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Home Depot Benefitting From Improving U.S. Housing Market -- S&P 500 Index ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)
NEW YORK, NY -- (Marketwire) -- 11/15/12 -- U.S. stock markets have slumped to 3-month slows after President Obama's re-election as investor focus has switched to the upcoming "fiscal cliff." Both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 Index ...
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Microsoft leads Nasdaq lower after executive exit
Business Recorder (blog)
Home Depot shares hit levels not seen since April 2000 and the company's raised outlook suggested a revival in the long-dormant US housing market. The S&P retail sector index advanced 1 percent. "Home Depot did say something about housing, which ...
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Thursday, November 1, 2012

Rent Price Index


Santa Monica's Measure GA Ballot Item Seeks To Change Rent Adjustment ...
Santa Monica Mirror
If approved by Santa Monica voters on Election Night, the ballot measure would amend the City Charter to limit general adjustments for rent-controlled units to 75 percent of the annual percentage change of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) with a zero to ...
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Housing benefit reforms could impact affordable housing
LocalGov
... Office study issued today reveals on current trends 48% of authorities will lack sufficient affordable local housing by 2017 – a result of pressure caused by the decision to uprate housing allowances by the consumer price index, rather than local ...
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Market Rent Index


Traders welcome market rates deal
Doncaster Today
It will be introduced immediately, but in future years rents may be raised in line with the Retail Price Index. Mexborough market trader Phil Toone said: "The new rents have effectively doubled but we are pleased because they are less than the ...
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Doncaster Today
Apartment Market Expansion Continues as Growth Rate Moderates
Sacramento Bee
The survey's indexes measuring Market Tightness (56), Sales Volume (51), Equity Financing (56) and Debt Financing (65) all measured at 50 or higher, indicating growth from the previous quarter. "Even after nearly three years of recovery, apartment ...
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House Price Index


Property prospects remain bleak
What Investment
The latest Nationwide House Price Index has revealed that prices in the residential market have slipped by 0.9 per cent compared with their level a year earlier, while according to the IPD UK Quarterly Property Index commercial values declined by 0.8 ...
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Govt housing plan misses mark
New Zealand Herald
During the 2000s, rents rose roughly in line with the consumers price index while house prices soared in real terms. That disconnect was an important safety valve. But that was then and this is now. The 2010 Budget eliminated a tax deduction for ...
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House price recovery stalls in October, RP Data figures show: Midday roundup
SmartCompany.com.au
The recent rise in capital city dwelling prices has stalled, according to the most recent figures from RP Data which show housing prices fell by 1% in October. This comes despite gains of 1.4% in September and a flat result in August. The biggest fall ...
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Housing Recovery May Help Obama Even as Remedies Short
Bloomberg
"The housing meltdown was so central to the crisis, even a modest recovery brings with it pretty powerful symbolism." Nationally, home prices have rebounded from their post- crash lows. The S&P/Case-Shiller 20-city index released this week rose 2 ...
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Case-Shiller House Price Index Signals Market Recovery - Wall ...
From: Wall Street Sector Selector ETF News Updates - 4:51pm - October 30, 2012. The Case-Shiller House Price Index for August indicated a 2-percent ...
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Housing Market Index


UK House Prices Rise, But Economy Still Fragile
Fox Business
The mortgage lender's index of house prices showed they are up 0.6% from September and down 0.9% from a year earlier. In September, prices fell 0.4% from August and were down 1.4% on the year. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones Newswires had ...
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Shiller: Housing Market Could Take 50 Years to Fully Recover
CNBC.com
Shiller is probably best known for helping create the Standard & Poor's/Case Shiller index, a widely-followed measure of housing prices, which recently revealed that U.S. home prices rose 2 percent in August compared to one year ago. Meanwhile, the ...
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China home prices rise for 5th month in Oct-survey
Reuters
Average home prices rose 0.2 percent to 8,768 yuan ($1,400) per square metre in October, keeping pace with September's increase, the China Real Estate Index System said on Thursday. A steady rise in home prices will renew concerns about property ...
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Colorado Housing Market Continuing to Improve
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
The CAR Housing Affordability Index, a new statistical measure in our housing market, dropped about 3% to 166 for the state. An index of 120 means the median household income was 120% of what is necessary to qualify for the median-priced home under ...
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Property prices slump in most capital cities
The Australian
Across Australia's capital cities, property prices fell 1 per cent over October, after a 1.4 per cent increase in September, according to the RP Data-Rismark home price index. RP Data research director Tim Lawless said: "It is surprising to see a fall ...
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Australian Exports Buffeted By Falling Commodity Prices
Wall Street Journal
Parts of the economy that typically would respond well to lower interest rates--like the housing market, retail and commercial construction--have so far been slow to react, however. Australian manufacturing contracted for the eighth straight month in ...
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Sandy Slamming New Jersey's Already Struggling Housing Market
Businessweek
Sandy's brutal arrival Oct. 29 was the latest blow to homeowners in New Jersey, where foreclosures continued to rise and real estate prices to fall after most of the U.S. housing market began to recover last year. The Atlantic storm claimed eight lives ...
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China Shares End Higher on Upbeat PMI Data, Property Gains
Wall Street Journal
The Shanghai index is likely to consolidate between 2000 and 2200 in the coming sessions ahead of the 18th Party Congress in Beijing, which is set to commence next week and where China will likely unveil its next generation of leaders. China's official ...
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Housing Market Update–September 2012 | F2M Market Watch
Builders expressed some confidence that this trajectory will continue, as the National Association ...
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