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NEW YORK - U.S. home prices dropped at the sharpest rate in two decades during the first quarter, a closely watched index showed Tuesday, a somber indication that the housing slump continues to deepen.
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Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller said its national home price index fell 14.1 percent in the first quarter compared with a year earlier, the lowest since its inception in 1988. The quarterly index covers all nine U.S. Census divisions.: z$ P' d+ q, p, m( R: a; |
' y( L c { X# s4 _8 @: ?; D5 z+ L% oPrices nationwide are at levels not seen since the third quarter of 2004, according to Maureen Maitland, a S&P vice president. However, the index is still up 60 percent versus 2000.
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Two narrower indices set record declines in March versus the previous year. The 20-city index tumbled 14.4 percent, the lowest since that index was started in 2001. The 10-city index plunged 15.3 percent, a record in its 20-year history.
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/ K' I9 y6 H! E' Y"There are very few silver linings that one can see in the data. Most of the nation appears to remain on a downward path," said David Blitzer, chairman of S&P's index committee., b; _! n+ A! r N7 c
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Nineteen of the 20 metro areas reported annual declines, with 15 of them posting record lows. Six metro areas lost more than 20 percent.4 E6 e5 d `, s- Q; U$ C
6 o# O* H: k- y* zLas Vegas had the worst performance in March, falling 25.9 percent from a year earlier, followed by Miami and Phoenix. Only Charlotte, N.C., stayed above water, gaining less than 1 percent over the previous year.7 B, T6 }9 {/ {* p4 e
" x2 d2 x- h3 b. D$ x HLast week, the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight said home prices fell 3.1 percent in the first quarter, the largest drop in its 17-year history and only the second quarter of price declines recorded.7 v3 J7 B, u. C0 u% @1 \
; j9 B, X* {9 y% YThe OFHEO index is narrower in scope and is calculated using mortgages of $417,000 or less that are bought or backed by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac. That excludes properties bought with some of the riskier types of home loans.4 `/ ?5 w$ g3 r4 S" v5 Q
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(This version CORRECTS that 20-city and 10-city metro area figures are for March sted 1st quarter) )4 g) m' i0 P6 u7 v8 m+ @
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