Home prices increase in August
The latest release of the听S&P/Case-Shiller (CSI) home price 听for August reported that the non-seasonally adjusted Composite-10 price index increased 0.87% since August while the Composite-20 index increased 0.88% over the same period.听
The latest CSI data clearly indicates that the price trends continued to experience a lift through the typically more active spring-summer season and听, the more timely and less distorted Radar Logic RPX data while continuing to capture rising prices, is starting to see a leveling off of the trend as the data moves through the summer transactions and heads for the typical declines seen in late-summer and fall.听
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The 10-city composite index increased 1.35% as compared to August 2011 while the 20-city composite increased 2.03% over the same period.听
Both of the broad composite indices show significant peak declines slumping -29.90% for the 10-city national index and -29.37% for the 20-city national index on a peak comparison basis.听
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