埃德蒙顿华人社区-Edmonton China

 找回密码
 注册
查看: 1624|回复: 1

S&P: US home prices tumble a record 14.1 pct in 1Q

[复制链接]
鲜花(17) 鸡蛋(0)
发表于 2008-6-4 08:05 | 显示全部楼层 |阅读模式
老杨团队,追求完美;客户至上,服务到位!
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.
# [$ a( C, O" Y2 b
& p2 y6 ]3 s0 _2 |9 GStandard & 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.
4 I4 h8 u; o4 G! {/ U, P9 _3 \5 E
5 g. d0 R  f; p- gPrices 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.+ A) K" V/ _# C7 K5 c
; A% V* ^1 [" j; d% z8 t9 s
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.3 o; I) X! A. S6 e

. ~. A0 m1 h" K0 K, H( e$ @"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.
" p7 }; L1 D5 e
  _  L* k( L! x; [- E& |Nineteen of the 20 metro areas reported annual declines, with 15 of them posting record lows. Six metro areas lost more than 20 percent.) ?- o! K# b  c5 L: x

, N9 i" j9 ^- i8 m; e3 V' DLas 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.
/ }" ^# i' |# B8 r$ x6 H; g3 @
# ], ~0 W# a" F* k3 ?- h' YLast 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.9 L$ v  x: {6 {) w4 g8 L3 V/ ]

0 j4 b# z! [6 C6 s7 dThe OFHEO index is narrower in scope and is calculated using mortgages of $417,000 or less that are bought or backed by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac. That excludes properties bought with some of the riskier types of home loans.- h( \1 o( H+ J% d$ @
* ^' C3 o- S; @+ [
(This version CORRECTS that 20-city and 10-city metro area figures are for March sted 1st quarter) )
9 @: m9 T( _# z7 b+ z* C( T: }
- d) J$ ?9 s3 b: K[ 本帖最后由 水管工 于 2008-6-4 09:20 编辑 ]
鲜花(49) 鸡蛋(0)
发表于 2008-6-4 09:57 | 显示全部楼层
您需要登录后才可以回帖 登录 | 注册

本版积分规则

联系我们|小黑屋|手机版|Archiver|埃德蒙顿中文网

GMT-7, 2026-7-8 03:53 , Processed in 0.138453 second(s), 11 queries , Gzip On, APC On.

Powered by Discuz! X3.4

Copyright © 2001-2021, Tencent Cloud.

快速回复 返回顶部 返回列表