The FHFA's's seasonally adjusted purchase -
only house price index was up 0.6 percent since the fourth quarter of 2011.
WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. home prices fell in the fourth quarter of 2007 according to OFHEO's seasonally - adjusted purchase -
only house price index.
Not exact matches
The Teranet - National Bank
index of
house prices in the country's 11 largest metropolitan regions rose 6.1 % in November, yet
only four cities — Toronto, Hamilton, Vancouver and Victoria — actually posted gains.
The Teranet — National Bank National Composite
House Price IndexTM was unchanged in March — the first time outside a recession when the March composite
index was not up at least 0.2 percentage points from February and the first time outside a recession when March
indexes were up for
only four of the 11 metropolitan markets of -LSB-...]
The latest
index records
only modest gains of 2.6 % in Australian
house prices over the past year to March (using ABS data), ranking the country 10th best performing global
housing markets out of 18 over 2012 with the top performing market being Hong Kong (24.5 %) followed by Brazil (12.8 %), South Africa (11.1 %) and India (10.7 %).
The purchase -
only Home
Price Index from the Federal
Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) rose at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 7.8 % in February, down from the 10.9 % increase in January, confirming the deceleration in home
prices.
According to Knight Frank's latest Global
House Price Index, worldwide home
prices recorded their weakest annual performance since the depths of the recession in 2009, recording
only 0.9 % growth in the year to March 2012.
Freud also disclosed the decision to link
housing benefit to the Consumer
Price Index and no longer to the Retail
Price Index was for two years
only from 2013, and no longer term decision had been made.
Overall, the Consumer
Price Index increased
only 3.9 percent, largely due to a decline in
housing costs.
If you believe that people are rational and markets are efficient, this will largely determine your views on gun control (unnecessary), consumer protection laws (caveat emptor), welfare programs (too many unintended consequences), derivatives regulation (let a thousand flowers bloom), whether you should invest in passive
index funds or hyperactive hedge funds (
index funds
only), the causes of financial crises (too much government intervention in
housing and mortgage markets), and how the government should or shouldn't respond to them (the primary financial role for government should be producing and verifying information so that it can be incorporated into market
prices).
While today's S&P Case - Shiller
House Price Index showed increases in most cities, that survey is a 3 month average with a 2 month lag, so it
only really tells you what has happened, not what is or is going to happen.
NAR's
housing affordability
index shows the typical monthly mortgage principal and interest payment for the purchase of a median -
priced existing home is
only 13 percent of gross household income, the lowest since records began in 1970.
Despite depressed
prices in many markets, the National Association of Home Builders»
Housing Opportunity
Index showed in November that
only 42 percent of all new and existing homes sold in the third quarter were
priced low enough to be affordable for families earning the national median income of $ 59,000.
The Teranet — National Bank National Composite
House Price IndexTM was unchanged in March — the first time outside a recession when the March composite
index was not up at least 0.2 percentage points from February and the first time outside a recession when March
indexes were up for
only four of the 11 metropolitan markets of -LSB-...]
This is the sixteenth consecutive monthly increase for the
House Price Index — Purchase
Only.