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What Next For Housing

We’re approaching the part of the month with a lot of housing data — National Association of Home Builders confidence index on March 18th, housing permits and starts on March 19th, existing home sales from the National Association of Realtors on March 21st and S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices on March 26th. As we move towards [...]

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Rebounding Foreclosures Threaten Home Price Gains in One-Third of Major Metros

Last week’s S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices report showed strong positive gains in home prices, but those positive gains are threatened by rebounding foreclosure activity in about one-third of the 20 markets tracked in the report. First the good news. Nineteen of the 20 metro areas tracked in the home price report registered positive year-over-year increases [...]

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Video Interview with David Blitzer on the latest S&P/Case-Shiller Results

David Blitzer, Managing Director and Chairman of the Index Committee at S&P Dow Jones Indices, provides a headline summary of the latest S&P/Case-Shiller report noting that home prices are up substantially across the cities.

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Video Interview with David Blitzer on the latest Case-Shiller Results

David Blitzer, Managing Director and Chairman of the Index Committee at S&P Dow Jones Indices, discusses the current state of the housing market after the latest data results for the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices were released. David notes that as housing prices continue to rise, the housing market is moving in the right direction.

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Home Prices Rise for the Sixth Straight Month According to the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices

Data through September 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 home prices continued to rise in the third quarter of 2012.  To access click here:  S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices – November 2012

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MarketWatch Interview with David Blitzer on Hurricane Sandy’s Impact on the Housing Market

David Blitzer, Managing Director and Chairman of the S&P Index Committee, discusses Hurricane Sandy’s impact on the housing market in this MarketWatch audio clip.

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The New York Times Article by Professor Robert Shiller: Housing Fever Can Work Both Ways

Professor Robert Shiller, co-founder of the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index, discusses the social epidemics that drive the economy and the role of expectations during the home buying process in a recent article for the New York Times.  Click here to access the full article.

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Housing Bulls

If upbeat comments and optimistic forecasts are a sign of a housing upturn, the upturn is just about here. The Federal Reserve’s Beige Book – the Fed’s survey of the economy published before each meeting of the FOMC, the Fed’s policy group, was released on Wednesday October 10th.  The summary comments, “Residential real estate showed [...]

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Foreclosures at Five Year Low

RealtyTrac®, today released its U.S. Foreclosure Market Report™ for September and the third quarter of 2012, showing foreclosure filings — default notices, scheduled auctions and bank repossessions — were reported on 180,427 U.S. properties in September, a decrease of 7 percent from the previous month and down 16 percent from September 2011. September’s total was the [...]

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October 13 – CME Group will Host a Moderated Forum on the U.S. Housing and Financial Crisis

On Friday, October 13th the CME Group is honoring Professor Robert Shiller of Yale University (and co-founder of the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices) with an award for Innovative Quantitative Applications. As part of this event, the CME Group is hosting a moderated forum featuring Rep. Barney Frank and Keith Hennessey on the U.S. Housing and [...]

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