S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index Falls
San Diego real estate agent
S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices report was just released this morning. Unfortunately, it seems to indicate that home prices have still not hit bottom. Though, the decline in home prices seems to be slowing, which is a good sign. For April 2011, the Case-Shiller index registered a decline of 4% from March 2010. This April reading is the lowest reading since November 2010. Read more 
Real Estate Market Double Dip
According to the S&P/Case-Shiller index of home prices in 20 cities, home values are down 32% from their peak set in May of 2006.
S&P/Case-Shiller just reported that February home prices sank 3.3% to just above the post-crisis lows reached in April 2009. It was the seventh straight month of declines.
The only housing market in the 20 cities followed, only Washington recorded a price increase from last year of 2.7%. Read more
Real Estate Market 2011 Double Dip
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Back on July 7th, 2010, I posted “San Diego real estate 2010 2nd. Half Outlook … double-dips” where I predicted the San Diego real estate market was headed for a double dip.
The latest Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller National Home Price Index showed that U.S. home prices fell 3.9 percent during the last three months of 2010, back to where they were at the beginning of 2003.
5 Reasons For A Real Estate Double Dip
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1. In almost all zip codes today the total economic cost of home ownership notably exceeds the total economic cost of renting. For only a small minority is this unimportant; for them the psychic benefits of ownership are real and large.
2. The majority of owners and potential owners are pessimistic about any real increase in home prices over the next five years; many are of the view that the effective purchasing power of equity congealed in a residence will actually decline over the next decade, compared with other real stores of value Read more
San Diego California Housing Double Dip
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In my 7-7-10 my post: San Diego real estate 2010 2nd. Half Outlook … double-dips I said that my local San Diego real estate market observations indicated that we are heading into a double dip for the real estate market.
Here is what Forbes just said: “The final figures for the U.S. housing market’s performance thus far in 2010 won’t be officially released for several weeks. But a review of the best preliminary data available indicates that the recovery in home values that began in early 2009 has stalled. A second dip is clearly under way in some places, if not across the entire U.S.” Read more
San Diego Home Prices Drop … Double Dip for California Housing
La Jolla California real estate
Single-family resale houses were down 1.9 percent to $368,000 from March to April but up 13.2 percent from April 2009’s $325,000; resale condos were down 3.5 percent to $220,000 but up 20.9 percent from last year’s $182,000. California home sales have been leveling out, the median price of homes has pulled back from the $300,000 threshold that was crossed in late 2009, along with reports on weakness in the national numbers and the large numbers of distressed sales across the board, the front and center question is: Are we headed for a double dip? Read more