By Jann Swanson
Posted To: MND NewsWire
The numbers on home price trends for March from the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) were somewhat less aggressive that those also released on Tuesday from S&P Dow-Jones Case-Shiller indices. While it is like comparing apples to eggplants it is still interesting to see the variations. FHFA’s seasonally adjusted monthly Home Price Index (HPI) for March posted an 0.3 percent gain over February, much weaker than the 0.8 percent increases for the Case-Shiller National Index and 10-City Composite and 0.9 percent for its 20-City Composite. The FHFA number was also below analyst expectations of 0.7 percent. FHFA said that its quarterly HPI increased by 1.32 percent during the first three months of 2015, the 15th consecutive quarterly price increase in its purchase-only seasonally adjusted…(read more)
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