Black Knight Financial Services announced the launch of its Black Knight Index Suite, a series of indices expanding on its existing Home Price Index (HPI). The series was created to provide insights into the housing and mortgage markets with comprehensive ...
Read More »The Week Ahead: The State of Home Prices
On Tuesday, the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Home Price Indices for April will be released, showing the state of prices in the housing market on a national level, a 20-city composite, and a 10-city composite. With inventory continuing to dwindle, will home prices continue on their current upward trend? Time will tell...
Read More »Home Prices Hit New Peak
According to new data, home prices have hit a new peak, now reaching $272,000. Eight states and 15 metros also hit new price peaks this year. Washington has seen the biggest jump in prices over the year.
Read More »Price Index Up in February
Home prices continued their steady climb in February. A new report shows prices up over January as well as last year. But this period of sustained growth only happened once before, and things didn’t go well when the train stopped.
Read More »Housing Prices Hit Post-Crisis High
According to a new home price index, national housing prices have appreciated to a new post-crisis high as of February. With an index of $268,000 for the month, the U.S. saw its highest home price growth since June 2006. Prices rose 0.8 percent for the month and 5.7 percent over the year.
Read More »Rising Home Prices Assist in Equity Recovery
Home prices are up considerably from a year ago, and along with it has come a significant gain in housing wealth.
Read More »What Issues are Lurking Behind Rising Home Prices?
What economic factors are making homes less affordable as housing prices near and even pass their pre-recession peaks in some markets?
Read More »National Home Prices Rise Higher in July
The CoreLogic Home Price Index reported an increase in home price for the national single family combined tier, which included distressed sales, over the prior month and year-over-year.
Read More »Home Prices Continue to Gain, But at Miniscule Rate
For the 12 months ending in July, FHFA reported house prices were up 4.4 percent. As of the latest index, the national HPI is now 6.4 percent below its peak in April 2007 and is roughly in line with its July 2005 level.
Read More »Home Prices on the Rise
Black Knight Financial Services released a report showing that the national Home Price Index (HPI) improved in general throughout the month of May across 18,500 examined zip codes in the United States. Home prices are now just 11 percent off of their 2006 peak. The HPI represents the price of non-distressed sales by taking into account price discounts for REO and short sales.
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