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Maureen Maitland

Vice President
S&P Indices
Biography

Maureen Maitland is vice president in S&P Indices’ Index Management and Production Department.  She is a member of several S&P Index Committees and is a leading media spokesperson for the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices.

In her role, Maureen oversees several departments, including index committee management and index development.  These departments support the creation and management of a variety of Standard & Poor’s indices in areas such as equities, real estate, fixed income, and commodities.  Maureen is the lead editor of all S&P index methodologies.  She also serves as operations and editorial manager for the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS), a joint product of Standard & Poor’s and MSCI Barra.

Before joining S&P Indices, Maureen worked for five years as a fixed income economist at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, and UBS Securities in New York.  Prior to that, she worked for Standard & Poor’s DRI, an economic forecasting and financial data services branch of the McGraw-Hill Companies.

Maureen received a B.S. in economics from Lehigh University and holds an M.S. in economics from Brown University.

Author Archives: Maureen Maitland

Consumer credit default rates retreat further in April 2012

On May 15th, S&P Indices and Experian released April 2012 data for the S&P/Experian Consumer Credit Default Indices, which measure consumer credit default rates. April data showed a decline in the composite index, led by a 12 basis point drop in first mortgage default rates. While having a much smaller weight in the composite, second [...]

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Is the pace of home sales still too low?

The volume of home sales remains low when compared to the first six or seven years of this century. Major US housing statistics, such as the S&P/Case-Shiller sales pair counts and NAR’s existing home sales, show how the number of existing home sales has slowed considerably since the beginning of the housing crisis. We update our [...]

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Another look at the regions

As we enter the sixth year of a bearish US housing market, location continues to play a major role in the relative size and severity of changes in home prices across the United States. With the S&P/Case-Shiller 20-City Home Price Indices, Boston saw average home prices peak first in the mid-2000s (September 2005) and Charlotte [...]

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Condo prices hit new crisis lows in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco

February 2012 data for the S&P/Case-Shiller Condo Price Indices were published on Tuesday April 24th, revealing that condo prices fell in all five of the metro areas covered by our indices – Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco. All five cities have shown falling condo prices for at least five consecutive months [...]

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Consumer default rates almost back to levels seen before the housing crisis

On April 17th, S&P Indices and Experian released March data for the S&P/Experian Consumer Credit Default Indices, which measure consumer credit default rates. March data showed a sharp decline in the composite index, led by a 14 basis point drop in first mortgage default rates. While having a much smaller weight in the composite, second [...]

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Condo prices hit new crisis lows in Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco

January 2012 data for the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices were released on Tuesday March 27th, with monthly declines in condo prices in all five of the metro areas covered by our indices – Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco. All five cities have shown falling condo prices for at least four consecutive [...]

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Existing home sales, activity is up but still slow

As measured by the number of closed transactions, the pace of existing home sales has slowed significantly over the past five years or so. The chart below clearly illustrates how sales first slowed down in the four years beginning in 2006 and by even more around mid-2011. The latest data are for January 2012, released [...]

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Eight cities and both composites hit new lows.

With today’s report, the S&P/Case-Shiller 10- and 20-City Home Price Composites fell to new post-crisis lows in January 2012. Both indices fell by 0.8% over the month, are down about 3.8% versus January 2011, and have declined by 34.4% since their relative 2006 peaks. Average home prices are back to their late 2002/early 2003 levels [...]

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First and second mortgage default rates fall again in February 2012

On March 20th, S&P Indices and Experian released February data for the S&P/Experian Consumer Credit Default Indices, which measure consumer credit default rates. The data showed a decline in the composite index, led by a six basis point drop in first mortgage default rates. Second mortgage and bank card default rates fell by even more [...]

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Like home prices, condos prices end 2011 on a weak note

December 2011 data for the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices were released on Tuesday February 28th, revealing monthly declines in condo prices in all five of the metro areas covered by our indices – Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco. The Chicago index reported the largest decline, down 4.8%, in December versus November. [...]

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