Anyone who questioned whether the housing depression continues only need look at the new S&P Case Shiller price data. The odds that home values will return to 2006 levels within the next decade get more remote by the hour.
Data through November 2010, released of the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices, show a deceleration in the annual growth rates in 17 of the 20 MSAs and the 10- and 20-City Composites compared to what was reported for October 2010. The 10-City Composite was down 0.4% and the 20-City Composite fell 1.6% from their November 2009 levels. Home prices fell in 19 of 20 MSAs and both Composites in November from their October levels. In November, only four MSAs – Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco and Washington DC – showed year-over-year gains.
Douglas A. McIntyre
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U.S. Home Prices Keep Weakening as Eight Cities Reach New Lows According to the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices