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Solid Home Price Gains Continued into January Ahead of Coronavirus Pandemic
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Home
prices entered 2020 still on the uptick according to the S&P CoreLogic
Case-Shiller indices. The U.S. National Home Price Index, which covers all nine
U.S. census divisions, reported a 3.9 percent annual gain in January. The year-over-year
increase in December was 3.7 percent. There was no monthly change in the
non-seasonally adjusted (NSA) index from December to January, but after
adjustment the National Index was up 0.5 percent. The
10-City Composite Index posted a 2.6 percent annual gain, up from 2.3 percent
in December and the 20-City Composite rose 3.1 percent, a 0.3-point greater increase
than the month before. The 10-City measured eked out 0.1 percent monthly growth while the 20-City
was flat on a non-adjusted basis. Both indices moved 0.3 percent higher after
adjustment. Ten of the 20 cities posted monthly appreciation on an unadjusted
basis, 18 of them did so when adjusted.
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