standard & poor’s

Home Prices, Interest Rates, and my Question to Maria Bartiromo: The Week in Housing

by Ryan Hinricher | April 4, 2011

Home prices are the main subject in this week’s coverage of the housing market. Also I provide some commentary from Maria Bartiromo’s keynote at the Standard & Poor’s event here in New York. Housing near Official Double-Dip Standard and Poor’s reported its January Case-Shiller Home Price Index this week. The beginning of the year has [...]

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Housing

Pending Home Sales Surge, Mortgage Purchases UP Despite Interest Rate Rise – The Week in Housing

by Ryan Hinricher | December 6, 2010

This week housing’s biggest story was a big rise in pending home sales. In addition we’ll cover rising interest rates and mortgage purchase applications. Standard & Poor’s also reports on the broad-based home prices and we’ll finish up with final thoughts and a look forward. Pending Home Sales: A Big RISE Coming off slightly lower [...]

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Mortgages & Lending

Home Prices Plunge. Steepest Decline Since WWII !

by Charles Feldman | December 28, 2007

The sky might not be falling, but home prices certainly are and in more parts of the nation than ever before. From October of 2006, home prices fell a whopping 6.1 percent. Most troubling, the declines happened in 20 of the largest metropolitan areas, and in many of those, the declines were much steeper. In [...]

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