Largest Expected Home Price Appreciation
The May 2010 edition of Money had an article on the best places for home – price increases. The home price changes they projected are for the second quarter of 2010 to the second quarter of 2012. We took the top six metro areas from this Money article and produced the graph below:
Home price appreciation
San Diego real estate attorney
Home Prices Mixed in February
Home Prices
The 10-City and 20-City Composites tracked as part of the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices showed improvements in February. For the first time since December 2006, the annual rates of changes for the two Composites were positive, although 11 of the 20 metro areas experienced year-over-year declines. Read more 
Survey Looks at Sentiment Toward Housing
Fannie Mae
A just released Fannie Mae National Housing Survey, conducted between December 2009 and January 2010, polled homeowners and renters to assess their confidence in home ownership as an investment, the current state of their household finances, views on the U.S. housing finance system and overall confidence in the economy.
U.S. Home Prices to Fall 6%
US home sales
According to a report between Fiserv and Moody’s, the average home price in the United States will fall by about 6% by September 2011.
Mark Zandi, economist and co-founder of Economy.com said: “Foreclosure sales will pick up this spring as mortgage servicers figure out who can qualify for a modification and who can’t.”
22% of California Homes For Sale Have Price Reductions
California home sales
Trulia.com, in a recent report, found that as of Jan. 1, 2010, 21 percent of homes currently on the market have experienced at least one price reduction. The total amount reduced for all homes nationwide declined to $21.2 billion in January compared with $24.7 billion in December. The average discount for homes with price reductions remained at 11 percent, according to the report. In the west, which includes California, 22 percent of listings experienced price reductions.
Housing Prices Set To Dip Again In 2010
Home prices appear to have stopped falling, but are we out of the housing woods yet? Robert Shiller, a founder of the S&P Case-Shiller home-price indexes.