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S&P Index Shows Home Prices Increased From April To May


               
2009 Jul 28, 12:41am   10,430 views  35 comments

by WillyWanker   follow (0)  

NEW YORK (AP) -- Home prices in May posted their first monthly increase since the summer of 2006, indicating prices are finally stabilizing, data Tuesday showed. The Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller home price index of 20 major cities rose 0.5 percent from April, but was still 17.1 percent below May a year ago. Thirteen cities showed monthly increases with the best results in Cleveland, Dallas and Boston.The 10-city index rose 0.4 percent from April, but was off 16.8 percent from May last year. It was the fourth consecutive month both indexes showed slowing price declines.The 20-city index has lost more than 32 percent since its peak three years ago, putting home prices back to mid-2003 levels."

Link:

finance.yahoo.com/news/Index-shows-home-prices-apf-2677200888.html?x=0&setopStories&pos=1&asset=&ccode=

No one is saying that the market is going back to 2006 prices, but this is positive news for the economy. These stories are beginning to trickle out and they should be dealt with on Patrick.net. Not addressing them is akin to those who refused to see the bubble for what it was: unsustainable.

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22   P2D2   @   2009 Jul 28, 5:07am  

WillyWanker says

‘…overestimating yourself by comparing with Kirkegaard.’??? ‘Please thank me for one more time.’??? What does that mean? I assumed I was corresponding with someone who knew how to read and write in English. My mistake. But thanks for playing.

Aha! Now it is coming from a person posted this one - "just like those who ...... are many people here who don’t want to see ..."

What was that? Freight-train English? :)

You don't have much of an argument, do you?

23   P2D2   @   2009 Jul 28, 5:16am  

interpretame says

EVERY statistic & index in the U.S. is currently COOKED, MASSAGED and TWISTED in order to get them to reflect the ‘right’ numbers.

I think media got bored with bad news. So even with microscopic uptick that lasts only microsecond, media starts jumping "it is stabilizing, it is positive".

24   pinnacle   @   2009 Jul 28, 6:51am  

The " improvement" is very small and only with enormous manipulation and infusions of money
to keep interests rates artificially low.
Last week a local television report on California foreclosures
described how 70 percent of homes in the foreclosure process have been halted after sending out the 21 day notification of sale.
All of these homes could be dumped on the market at any time without any additional delay. The people on the show who were with various foreclosure assistance agencies were all very concerned with this pile of foreclosures being parked on the edge of a cliff.
I don't hear this on any national news media but some of the local stations are actually providing a lot more
significant information and none of it sounds positive.

25   Vicente   @   2009 Jul 28, 9:12am  

Bankster obviously California beat you up in grade school or something and you are still steaming over it. I recommend a good stiff drink and move on.

27   Vicente   @   2009 Jul 28, 9:25am  

If you are aware of some California Bailout in progress please share. Last I heard all begging by governors were turned down. Otherwise you are just a loon who thinks JOOOS excuse me KALIFORNICATORS are to blame for every single ill around them.

28   ch_tah2   @   2009 Jul 28, 9:31am  

nowhere but up from here says

Now ya just can’t beat that….

Yes, because the "president and CEO of Prudential Douglas Elliman Real Estate" is an unbiased and reliable source. Are you going to start citing Lawrence Yun next?

29   Vicente   @   2009 Jul 28, 10:03am  

Bankster Buddy, your constant railing about KALIFORNIA SUCKING ON THE FEDERAL BOOBS while the rest of Uhmerica is slaving away at the oars to pay for our granola is patent nonsense. The article you linked doesn't say ANYTHING about Federal "few billion" dollars flowing into California. Unless it's hidden somewhere. Y

According to your article, California doesn't even charge oil companies royalties like Alaska does. So if Californa starts taxing them and suddenly your gas prices go up I guess you could say we are affecting you. Conversely you could say "librul" states like Alaska are unfairly taxing you now and demand it be rescinded.

I like bashing California as much as the next guy, this place is full of crazy people and assuredly "kicking the can down the road" will only lead to another budget crisis in 6 months or so. You are coming off as a California-bashing loon who can't even keep your story straight from one second to the next.

30   dont_getit   @   2009 Jul 28, 6:03pm  

nowhere but up from here says

Now ya just can’t beat that….
http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/article/291494/Hope-for-Housing%3A-Prus-Herman-Sees-Stabilization%2C-End-of-Price-Plunges

Excellent article. I am afraid that I would be priced out again..

32   missgredenko   @   2009 Jul 30, 3:46am  

Dead cat bounce the year after the crash, right on schedule:

"For the immediate future, at least, the outlook (stocks) is bright."
- Irving Fisher, Ph.D. in Economics, in early 1930

"...there are indications that the severest phase of the recession is over..."
- Harvard Economic Society (HES) Jan 18, 1930

"There is nothing in the situation to be disturbed about."
- Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon, Feb 1930

"The spring of 1930 marks the end of a period of grave concern...American business is steadily coming back to a normal level of prosperity."
- Julius Barnes, head of Hoover's National Business Survey Conference, Mar 16, 1930
"... the outlook continues favorable..."
- HES Mar 29, 1930

"... the outlook is favorable..."
- HES Apr 19, 1930

"While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed through the worst -- and with continued unity of effort we shall rapidly recover. There has been no significant bank or industrial failure. That danger, too, is safely behind us."
- Herbert Hoover, President of the United States, May 1, 1930
"...by May or June the spring recovery forecast in our letters of last December and November should clearly be apparent..."
- HES May 17, 1930

"Gentleman, you have come sixty days too late. The depression is over."
- Herbert Hoover, responding to a delegation requesting a public works program to help speed the recovery, June 1930

"... irregular and conflicting movements of business should soon give way to a sustained recovery..."
- HES June 28, 1930

"... the present depression has about spent its force..."
- HES, Aug 30, 1930

"We are now near the end of the declining phase of the depression."
- HES Nov 15, 1930

http://www.gold-eagle.com/editorials_01/seymour062001.html

(See 1929 - 33 Dow chart w/corresponding corporate/government rah-rah statements.)

33   missgredenko   @   2009 Jul 30, 3:57am  

heh! heh! It's amazing how people forget the markets experienced a nice upturn in 1930 only to turn around and reach lower lows. Also it took 4 years after the 1929 market crash to reach the peak unemployment. 4 years! Yes that was exacerbated by the dust bowl conditions and farm failures. (The farms failed as a result of previous overleveraging during WWI when American farmers were asked to ramp up production to help Europeans eat. Their own fields were involved w/battle).

Just like then our whole system is overleveraged. What will be the shock that sets off the next leg down? Don't sneeze anyone.

34   Fireballsocal   @   2009 Jul 30, 1:56pm  

Interpretame and nowhere but up from here: Are there any other reasons you two (And anyone else on here that agrees) believes the housing market has bottomed other than the uptick in sales this month and the president/media/fed stating the recession has ended?? You do realize that while more houses were sold in June than in May, its still a situation where the market still sucks, it just doesn't suck as bad?

Interpretame, where are you living at?

35   justme   @   2009 Jul 31, 7:02am  

NBUFH must be a fortress realtor ... or was that established already?

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