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Homes vs. Condos

S&P/Case-Shiller Home Prices Indices cover condominiums in five markets as well as single family homes in 20 cities.  The table compares the boom-bust and recovery results for homes and condominiums in the five cities — Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Boston and New York.   The overall performance is similar between homes and condos but there [...]

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Home Prices Closed Out a Strong 2012 According to the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices

Data through December 2012, released today by S&P Dow Jones Indices for its S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices, showed that all three headline composites ended the year with strong gains. The national composite posted an increase of 7.3% for 2012. The 10- and 20-City Composites reported annual returns of [...]

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Four consecutive monthly increases in condo prices

July 2012 data for the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices were released on Tuesday September 25th, showing the fourth consecutive monthly increase in condo prices in all five of the metro areas covered by our indices – Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco. It would have been the fifth had Chicago prices not [...]

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Condo prices increase across all five cities

June 2012 data for the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices were released on Tuesday August 28th, revealing the third consecutive monthly increase in condo prices in all five of the metro areas covered by our indices – Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco. It would have been the fourth had Chicago prices not fallen [...]

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Condo prices increase across all five cities

April 2012 data for the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices were released on Tuesday June 26th, with monthly increases in condo prices in all five of the metro areas covered by our indices – Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco. As a result, none of the cities posted a new low in April [...]

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Some improvement in condo prices in March

March 2012 data for the S&P/Case-Shiller Condo Price Indices were published on Tuesday May 29th, indicating that monthly condo prices rose in four of the five of the metro areas covered by our indices – Boston, Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco. Chicago was the one market where condo prices fell over the month. [...]

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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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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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City Peaks and Troughs

Along with the three composites — national, 10-city and 20-city — four cities also set new lows in the December data.   The four were Tampa, Las Vegas, Seattle and Atlanta.  The first two of these are among the consistently weak sunbelt while the other two were reasonably stable until the last six months.  In both Atlanta [...]

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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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