Harris Real Estate University students (and future students) here are the latest Case-Shiller home price indices.

The March report(.pdf) for the S&P Case-Shiller Home Price Indexes shows a record decline of 19.1 percent in the quarterly National Home Price Index and a slightly less severe rate of decline for the 10-city and 20-city indexes. Price indexes for all 20 cities are shown below.
The top to bottom position on the right (corresponding to the order of the legend in the upper left to aid in viewing the data) saw a few changes last month, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Minneapolis, and Phoenix continuing to move down.

The index for Detroit now stands at 71.67, well off the bottom of the chart.

As shown below, Phoenix maintained its leadership role in year-over-year price declines with an astonishing 36.0 percent plunge. Las Vegas and San Francisco are not far behind with declines of more than 30 percent, all underlined in red.

Home prices in Minneapolis continue to tumble at an astonishing rate, down more than 6 percent in March with a year-over-year drop of 23.3 percent, sixth worst of the 20 cities. David M. Blitzer, Chairman of the Index Committee at Standard & Poor’s, noted:

Declines in residential real estate continued at a steady pace into March. All 20 metro areas are still showing negative annual rates of change in average home prices with nine of the metro areas having record annual declines. Seventeen metro areas recorded a monthly decline in March, with Minneapolis, Detroit and New York posting record monthly declines.

On a positive note, nine of MSAs are reporting a relative improvement in year-over-year returns and nine of the 20 metro areas saw an improvement in their monthly returns compared to February. Furthermore, this is the second month since October 2007 where the 10- and 20-City Composites did not post a record annual decline. Based on the March data, however, we see no evidence that that a recovery in home prices has begun.

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There’s your “green shoot” for the day – March was the second month in the last six where neither index showed a record annual decline in home prices.

Source: TheMessThatGreenspanMade.com

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