Housing Market Index

Stocks mixed in thin trading; housing prices up, oil creeps over $96 a barrel MassLive.com real estate sold sign.JPG House prices increased in all major U.S. cities in June, according to the closely watched Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller home-price index. The report was the latest sign that the housing market has been gaining strength. NEW ... See all stories on this topic » MassLive.com

Canada house prices up 0.7 pct in July from June - Teranet Reuters ... home prices rose in July from June to hit a record high for a third consecutive month, but the slower pace of gains and falling prices in Vancouver suggested the housing market is cooling, the Teranet-National bank Composite House Price Index ... See all stories on this topic »

Case-Shiller index: Housing market may finally be in recovery Puget Sound Business Journal (blog) The positive posting was enough to prompt David Blitzer, chairman of the Index Committee at S&P Dow Jones Indices, to suggest the housing market has finally regained its health. "We seem to be witnessing exactly what we needed for a sustained recovery, ... See all stories on this topic »

US Stocks Rise After Upbeat Housing Data Wall Street Journal NEW YORK--Stocks rose as traders shrugged off a regional request for bailout funds in Spain after an upbeat reading from the housing market. The Dow Jones Industrial Average recently rose eight points, or 0.1%, to 13133. The index ended Monday down ... See all stories on this topic »

Hottest and coldest US housing markets OregonLive.com U.S. home prices rose in June from the same month last year, according to the Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller home price index released Tuesday. Steady increases have contributed to a housing recovery that began earlier this year. And most markets are ... See all stories on this topic »

U.S. home prices continue upward move in June MarketWatch Even with the gains, prices have still fallen a long way from their 2006 peaks — roughly 31%. The Case-Shiller index is unique in that it measures prices on a three-month rolling basis, so June's figures include transactions in April and May. Other ... See all stories on this topic »

Optimistic housing prices report, but tempered reaction Washington Post (blog) Although a national report on home prices for the second quarter was optimistic, some housing analysts tempered their enthusiasm about the housing market's recovery. The three composites measured by the Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller home price index ... See all stories on this topic »

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Signs of Housing Recovery - Graphic - NYTimes.com N.A.H.B./Wells Fargo. Housing Market index. Seasonally adjusted annual rate. An index level above 50 indicates that more builders view conditions as "good." ... www.nytimes.com/.../2012/.../Signs-of-Housing-Recovery.htm...

Can the U.S. Housing Market Continue this Recovery? - Money ... The U.S. housing market has shown some encouraging signs of a rebound – but is this ... The Standard & Poor's/Case Shiller Home Price Index released today ... moneymorning.com/.../can-the-u-s-housing-market-continue-t...

AP's D'Innocenzio Doesn't Understand How Consumer Confidence ... The results are the latest swing in the index, which has been on a rollercoaster. ... August's reading indicates that the gains in the job and housing markets aren't ... m.newsbusters.org/.../aps-dinnocenzio-doesnt-understand-how...

Some States Rank High on 'Housing Misery' Index | Realtor Magazine Are some housing markets still suffering from the blues? Trulia's Housing Misery Index takes into account the percentage of change in home prices from a state's ... realtormag.realtor.org/.../some-states-rank-high-housing-miser...

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Dollar CEO Seen Making $82 Million Scoring 141-Fold Gain Businessweek Rental-car companies buy them, rent them for a few months or a few years and then sell them, either back to the automaker or on the open market. ... Dollar Thrifty has traded at a premium to the index on a price-to-sales ratio (DTG) since early last year. See all stories on this topic »

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Slow stock day: Apple only standout, Hertz and Dollar Thrify shares up The Star-Ledger - NJ.com Apple's move wasn't the biggest on the stock market Monday. Best Buy, Hertz, Dollar Thrifty and other companies all moved by bigger percentages. But the Nasdaq composite index and Standard & Poor's 500 index are weighted by stock market value, so the ... See all stories on this topic » The Star-Ledger - NJ.com

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Case-Shiller: Home prices rose in June in all 20 cities USA TODAY ... Chicago and Atlanta recorded the biggest one-month gains. "The combined positive news coming from both monthly and annual rates of change in home prices bode well for the housing market," said David Blitzer, chairman of the S&P's index committee. See all stories on this topic » USA TODAY

US stocks open lower; housing prices rise in June and oil prices cross $96 a ... Washington Post The broader Standard & Poor's 500 index is down two to 1,407, and the Nasdaq composite index is down four to 3,068. The price of a house increased in all major U.S. cities in June, according to the Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller home price index. See all stories on this topic »

Housing Prices Have a New Cliff to Climb Wall Street Journal Housing has improved considerably since then. The question is how durable the recovery will prove. S&P/Case-Shiller home-price data due Tuesday should underscore the improving trend. The main 20-city, composite home-price index for June is expected ... See all stories on this topic » Wall Street Journal

Supply and demand imbalance pushes prices down MyIntroducer.com Hometrack have released their monthly House Price Index indicating that the widening gap between supply and demand is pushing prices down. Key statistics - Monthly price change: -0.1% (the same as in July) - % change in new buyers registering with ... See all stories on this topic »

Conix, Inc. to Offer Home Price Protection Guarantees With REO Properties Sacramento Bee At time of contract, the EquityLock® Protection contract uses the local House Price Index (HPI) provided by the Federal Housing Finance Agency at www.fhfa.gov to determine market movement for future claim payments. After a two year waiting period, ... See all stories on this topic »

US homebuilder ETFs boom as house prices and sales rebound ETF Strategy US homebuilder ETFs, such as the iShares Dow Jones US Home Construction Index ETF (ITB), have rallied strongly this year as house prices and sales have rebound. Leading the pack has been the highly targeted iShares Dow Jones US Home Construction ... See all stories on this topic » ETF Strategy

Why Home Prices Are Rising: The 'Distressed Share' Wall Street Journal (blog) The decline in the distressed share is important for the housing market, and especially for home-price indexes like Case-Shiller. Because banks are faster to cut prices to unload inventory than are mom-and-pop sellers, home values can fall further as ... See all stories on this topic »

US home prices post first 12-month gain since 2010 Syracuse.com "The combined positive news coming from both monthly and annual rates of change in home prices bode well for the housing market," said David Blitzer, chairman of the S&P's index committee. The S&P/Case-Shiller monthly index covers roughly half of U.S. ... See all stories on this topic » Syracuse.com

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Housing Market: 3 Charts That Show Improvement Continued In August Seeking Alpha Back in July, the National Association of Homebuilders reported that the Housing Market Index increased dramatically to a reading of 35. Analysts had expected the index to rise to 30 after reading 29 in the previous month. "Builder confidence increased ... See all stories on this topic »

US Stock-Index Futures Fluctuate Before Confidence Data Bloomberg U.S. stock-index futures fluctuated between gains and losses before reports on consumer confidence and house prices. PVH Corp., owner of the Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger brands, jumped in late U.S. trading after raising its full-year profit forecast. See all stories on this topic »

US home prices post first 12-month gain since '10 San Antonio Express "The combined positive news coming from both monthly and annual rates of change in home prices bode well for the housing market," said David Blitzer, chairman of the S&P's index committee. The S&P/Case-Shiller monthly index covers roughly half of U.S. ... See all stories on this topic »

Home prices gain for fifth month in June: S&P CNBC.com NEW YORK (Reuters) - Home prices rose more than expected in June, the fifth month in a row of gains in a fresh sign of improvement in the housing market, a closely watched survey showed on Tuesday. The S&P/Case Shiller composite index of 20 ... See all stories on this topic »

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Case-Shiller Home Prices Finally Show Year-over-Year Gain in June 2012 Global Economic Intersection Case-Shiller home price index was the only index showing a significant year-over-year home price decline. The National Association of Realtors and CoreLogic have reported year-over-year home price gains. Note the caveats section at the end of this post. See all stories on this topic » Global Economic Intersection

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Dutch Housing Prices Tumble Wall Street Journal House prices fell 8% from a year earlier, statistics bureau CBS said Tuesday, the largest decline in the 17-year history of the agency's house-price index. Prices fell 4.4% in June and 5.5% in May. "This is more than we had expected. The rate of ... See all stories on this topic »

House prices halved in five years The Press Association The latest snapshot of the market has shown that prices continue to tumble, falling by 11% in the last year. The figures are contained in the official Residential Property Price Index for the second quarter of this year. The index is compiled using ... See all stories on this topic »

Wales house prices rise by 2.1% The Press Association According to the latest LSL Acad Wales house price index (HPI), the mean figure for a property in the principality now stands at £152195 - an increase of 2.1% compared with 2011. It says the most expensive county to buy a home in is the Vale of ... See all stories on this topic »

Dow Jones Industrial Average Sees Red Ahead of Fed, Housing Schaeffers Research Weekly jobless claims, the FHFA House Price Index, new home sales, and the minutes from the latest Federal Reserve policy setting meeting hit the Street today, while Aruba Networks (ARUN), Autodesk (ADSK), Big Lots (BIG), Hormel Foods (HRL), ... See all stories on this topic »

The Retail Price Index in July went down by 0.65% Gozo News A downward movement in the price of fruit underlay a decrease of 0.47 per cent in the Food Index. Discounted prices of household textiles and carpets caused the Household Equipment and House Maintenance Cost Index to go down by 0.25 per cent. See all stories on this topic »

Global house prices ease but not in NZ The Aucklander ASB chief economist Nick Tuffley said house prices here had stayed high compared to incomes and would likely continue to rise. "We may look like we're over-valued ... Spain 22% * Britain 17% * Italy 15%. Source: The Economist global house price index ... See all stories on this topic »

Recommended: Housing headaches in swing states emerge as campaign issue NBCNews.com (blog) Those two states, deemed strategically vital by pundits and election "tossups" by pollsters, also share top rungs on the "Housing Misery Index." The ranking ... In Reno the median sales price has fallen to $165300 from $193800. Meanwhile, Nevada's ... See all stories on this topic » NBCNews.com (blog)

Housing-Related Assets Attractive as Prices Bottom, Pimco Says Bloomberg U.S. home prices, after declining 35 percent through February from a 2006 peak, gained 3.6 percent through May, according to an S&P/Case Shiller index of values in 20 large metropolitan areas, fueling speculation that a recovery is under way. The slump ... See all stories on this topic »

Toll Brothers 3rd-quarter profit climbs as company delivers more homes at ... Washington Post The index hasn't been in positive territory since April 2006, the peak of the housing boom. For the three months ... Yearley said the housing recovery is being driven by low interest rates, attractive home prices and pent-up demand. Toll Brothers ... See all stories on this topic »

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Philadelphia Regional House Price Indices Disclaimers and Acknowledgments: Econsult Corporation provides these house prices indices free of charge to the public. The indices are produced by Econsult ... www.econsult.com/articles/081512_PRHPI_2012Q2.pdf

Still Getting the Housing Bubble Wrong | Beat the Press House prices today are pretty much in line with their long-term trend as we can see from the real Case-Shiller house prices index. prices-building-costs-8-2012 ... www.cepr.net/index.../still-getting-the-housing-bubble-wrong