Printing Press On? Why Not? Even though the U.S. Money supply is up over 20% for the year, normalcy bias will prevent most people from caring because their home prices have been rocking-it. Just out: NEW YORK, DECEMBER 29, 2020 – S&P Dow Jones Indices today released the latest results for the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller … Read More
Gotta Lock-In Somewhere, Right? If there was ever a reason to buy the biggest home you could afford, Coronavirus is IT. Capital I.T. Not surprisingly, people are doing exactly as programmed: NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 24, 2020 – S&P Dow Jones Indices today released the latest results for the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Indices, the leading measure … Read More
Just out is the monthly Case Shiller, S&P, CoreLogic (and whoever else) Housing report: “YEAR-OVER-YEAR The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price NSA Index, covering all nine U.S. census divisions, reported a 5.7% annual gain in August, up from 4.8% in the previous month. The 10-City Composite annual increase came in at 4.7%, up … Read More
Just out is the monthly press release from Case-Shiller (S&P, et al) on Housing prices around the country. Holding their own…but…. NEW YORK, JULY 28, 2020 – S&P Dow Jones Indices today released the latest results for the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices. Data released today for May 2020 … Read More
Incomplete data due to CV-19 in Detroit area. YEAR-OVER-YEAR The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price NSA Index, covering all nine U.S. census divisions, reported a 4.7% annual gain in April, up from 4.6% in the previous month. The 10-City Composite annual increase came in at 3.4%, remaining the same as last month. The … Read More
Wow – but remember, this is FEBRUARY data so virtually NO IMPACT of the CV-19 pandemic showing here: YEAR-OVER-YEAR The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price NSA Index, covering all nine U.S. census divisions, reported a 4.2% annual gain in February, up from 3.9% in the previous month. The 10-City Composite annual increase came … Read More
Before we get into the Housing Data, a word here about the timeframe of the data. We are at the end of March. The data here is January sales data. Pandemic impact on housing won’t be evident for some months, yet. “Data released today for January 2020 show that home prices continue to increase at … Read More
Not by a lot, though, as we shall see: First, though, the good news. YEAR-OVER-YEAR The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price NSA Index, covering all nine U.S. census divisions, reported a 3.8% annual gain in December, up from 3.5% in the previous month. The 10-City Composite annual increase came in at 2.4%, up … Read More
Picture first: From the Cash-Shiller/S&P/ CoreLogic (and whoever else is in on it) report: MONTH-OVER-MONTH Before seasonal adjustment, the National Index posted a month-over-month increase of 0.1% in September. The 10-City Composite did not post any gains and the 20-City Composite posted a 0.1% increase for the month. After seasonal adjustment, the National Index recorded … Read More
Just out the new Case-Shiller, S&P, CoreLogic monthly Housing report. I could have been better – things are very close to flat in the Month-on-Month data (before “corrections…”: “S&P Dow Jones Indices today released the latest results for the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices. Data released today for August … Read More
Interesting headline in the Case-Shiller (et al) Housing report just out: The headline: “CHARLOTTE JOINS TOP THREE CITIES IN ANNUAL HOME PRICE GAINS ACCORDING TO S&P CORELOGIC CASE-SHILLER INDEX ” Followed by details which are really a bout housing slowing down: “S&P Dow Jones Indices today released the latest results for the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller … Read More
Been a good ride, but seems to be rolling over in our read of the S&P Housing Data just out: When they don’t lead a press release with the “change” slug, it means to read carefully! NEW YORK, AUGUST 27, 2019 – S&P Dow Jones Indices today released the latest results for the S&P CoreLogic … Read More
This time of the year, millions of Americans take some time off. One of the most popular ways to do this is by taking a ‘recreational vehicle’ and going somewhere. But few people realize that to a large extent, RV’s had theirs roots in the original build-out of America. The February 1905 editions of Popular … Read More