December 2009

Tweet Home values in the San Francisco metropolitan area increased modestly in October, bucking a national trend in which spring and summer price gains trailed off, according to an authoritative housing report. Single-family home prices in the San Francisco area increased 1.2 percent in October compared with September, according to the Case-Shiller/S&P Home Price Index. [...]

Tweet Denver-area home prices fared the best in a 20-city survey released Tuesday, falling just 0.1 percent in October compared with the same month last year. Home prices nationwide declined an average of 7.3 percent in October compared with a year ago, according to the Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller Home Price Index. It’s the smallest year-over-year [...]

Tweet The S&P/Case-Shiller 20-city home-price index, a closely watched gauge of U.S. home prices, rose a seasonally adjusted 0.4% in October from September. But it was flat on an unadjusted basis as the monthly gains seen earlier in the year faded. The index declined 7.3% from a year earlier. For the 19th straight month, no [...]

Tweet Financially, the decade of the 2000s was one that most people would probably like to forget. Things are about as bad now as they’ve been in a while but that doesn’t mean there isn’t reason for optimism. Our government has said that the recession that’s been affecting us for the last two years ended [...]