Posts with tag Case Shiller Home Price Index

WASHINGTON -- Spring buying pushed home prices up for a third straight month in most major U.S. cities in June. But the housing market remains shaky, and further price declines are expected this year. The Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller home-price index showed Tuesday that prices increased from May to June in 19 of... Continue Reading »

Who says nothing is moving in the real estate market? For all those naysayers -- yes Case and Shiller we mean you -- we offer these recent high-profile sales of celebrity homes that sold without breaking a sweat. 1. Our fast-selling hero award goes to actor Jason Statham of "The Transporter" movies, who put his Hollywood... Continue Reading »

We like to panic as much as the next homeowner, but reading the proclamations each month uttered by the Great Gods of Real Estate -- Case and Shiller -- is simply growing wearisome. Nobody really knows what to make of all the contradictory statistics and reports about home sales and prices that are released every few... Continue Reading »

The average price of a single-family home reached a new low in the first quarter and is now at 2002 levels, according to the Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller index. The downturn is the most acute since prices began falling several years ago. The index fell 4.2 percent in the first three months of 2011, after declining... Continue Reading »

The latest Case Shiller Home Price Index may not be music to your ears, but it still sounds pretty good -- that is, when sung as music by a classically trained baritone. In the spirit of radio -- which, of course, can't show you the results in a graph -- the Planet Money team at National Public Radio had the February Case... Continue Reading »