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

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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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& B. J2 I7 b0 |% ^' dStandard & 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.$ }% j2 d8 R; [; o

7 }% m* }% g8 {. P# p" sPrices 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.: U* ~  e7 R5 ]1 s9 O8 r8 A7 S

. r' n2 S" ?. G/ STwo 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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( r/ n. E% \% }$ A6 w; 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.! i2 g0 n) f7 Y# n

( K6 `. ^  X* ZNineteen of the 20 metro areas reported annual declines, with 15 of them posting record lows. Six metro areas lost more than 20 percent.
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Las 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.: o2 H5 x$ }3 b' N# M$ p' P( T" \! M

, X* e" X2 j7 N- E; d5 Y9 BLast 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.
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The OFHEO index is narrower in scope and is calculated using mortgages of $417,000 or less that are bought or backed by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac. That excludes properties bought with some of the riskier types of home loans.
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6 }& H' e) g" `- n! h(This version CORRECTS that 20-city and 10-city metro area figures are for March sted 1st quarter) )
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' o- d9 X2 f7 A$ t" U+ H5 n[ 本帖最后由 水管工 于 2008-6-4 09:20 编辑 ]
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