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The Shadow Inventory is Slowly Disappearing

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

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Florida, California, New York, Illinois and New Jersey were home to four out of ten distressed properties in the nation in January, an indication of how far east America's foreclosure nightmare has moved

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Case-Shiller: 2012 Price Hikes Matched the Boom Years

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

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Home prices increased more in 2012 than they have since have since the summer of 2006 in both of the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices.

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It’s Official! Prices Increased a Lot Last Year

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

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The major national home price reports agree on trends but never agree on numbers because their data comes from different places and are manipulated differently to create the most accurate results. Yesterday S&P Case-Shiller announced 20012's gain was 7.3 percent. The federal government's index showed a 5.5 percent gain.

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Affordability Hangs Tough Despite Rising Prices

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

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Despite the greatest price increases in years, affordability has hardly budged from six year peaks and in many of the nation's most expensive markets, it's still rising.

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Case-Shiller Downplays the Doubters

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

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Weak prices in a number of late fall markets as evident in NAR's latest pending sales index has been causing concern in the real estate circles, but Case-Shiller, the final word on prices, downplayed the doubters today.

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Biggest Losers are Now the Biggest Winners

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

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Markets that fell hardest during the housing crash five years ago today are racking up the biggest year over year gains as the prices in the nation as a whole through October exceeded analysts' forecasts. Housing markets that were on their knees just a year or so ago from foreclosures and low employment today are seeing prides rise much faster than cities that never felt the housing crash, according to the latest S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices.

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Case-Shiller Makes it Official: “We are Now in the Midst of a Recovery”

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

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Two of the nation's most authoritative national housing price indices today reported significant third quarter price increases over last year at this time, and the chairman of the Index Committee at S&P Dow Jones Indices confirmed that a housing recover is underway.

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Rising Values Push Nearly One Million Homeowners Above Water

Sunday, August 5, 2012

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The number of homeowners who owe more in their mortgages than they are worth fell by 5.8 percent in the first quarter and nearly a full point from a year ago as rising values pushed nearly three quarters of a million homeowners into the black in the first quarter, and today the total may exceed one million.

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“Catfish” Recovery Outswims Case-Shiller

Friday, June 3, 2011

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New listing prices, which lead transactions by three to six months, are already up 8.7 percentage points over the March trough, an indication that sellers are pricing more confidently, said Scott Sambucci, vice president of market analytics for Altos Research in a Webcast for customers yesterday.

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Depressed Prices Descend into Dreaded Double Dip

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

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Home prices officially reached the long feared double dip in January as prices of single-family homes in 20 major cities fell for a sixth straight month, according to the authoritative S&P/Case-Shiller home price index released Tuesday by Standard & Poor's.

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