Comments on July Case-Shiller and FHFA House Prices

Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Case-Shiller: National House Price Index Up 1.0% year-over-year in July; New all-time High

Excerpt: S&P/Case-Shiller released the monthly Home Price Indices for July (“July” is a 3-month average of May, June and July closing prices). July closing prices include some contracts signed in March, so there is a significant lag to this data. Here is a graph of the month-over-month (MoM) change in the Case-Shiller National Index Seasonally Adjusted (SA).

The MoM increase in the seasonally adjusted Case-Shiller National Index was at 0.65%. This was the sixth consecutive MoM increase following seven straight MoM decreases.

On a seasonally adjusted basis, prices increased in all of the 20 Case-Shiller cities on a month-to-month basis. Seasonally adjusted, San Francisco has fallen 9.7% from the recent peak, Seattle is down 8.8% from the peak, Las Vegas is down 8.3%, and Phoenix is down 7.6%.