Home prices post record annual drop
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Prices of existing U.S. single-family homes recorded their biggest annual drop in October, suggesting the housing slump is far from over, a national home price gauge released on Wednesday showed.
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House prices fell by 1.1 per cent last month, their worst performance in four years, Halifax, Britain&#39;s biggest mortgage lender, has said.
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The slump in home prices was both deeper and more widespread than ever in the fourth quarter, according to a trade group report Thursday. Year-over-year, it was the biggest drop on record, said the National Association of Realtors. But David Lereah, the group's chief economist indicated the worst may be over. "When we get the figures for this spring, I expect to see a discernable improvement in both sales and prices."
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The pace of existing home sales in July fell slightly to a 5.75 million unit annual rate and the supply of unsold single-family homes hit its highest level since 1991, the National Association of Realtors said.
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House prices fell at their sharpest rate in four years in October, the Halifax bank says, in another sign that the property boom is over.
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Sales of existing homes fell more than expected in April while prices slid for a record ninth consecutive month, indicating further troubles ahead for the housing market.
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Home prices declined a record 6.7 percent in October compared with a year ago, according to a price index.
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WASHINGTON - Consumer prices posted a rare decline in August while the battered housing industry saw construction fall to the slowest pace in 12 years.
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The average asking price of homes up for sale has fallen for a third month in a row, Rightmove says.
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New home sales plunged in 2007 by the largest amount on record while home prices tumbled sharply in December. Analysts forecast more trouble in 2008 as housing tries to emerge from its worst slump in more than two decades.
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Marking the worst sales year on record, new home sales dropped by 26.4% last year to 774,000.
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Business & money: Drop means annual rate of price inflation is at lowest point since December 2005
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Further evidence that the housing market has run out of steam emerged yesterday as the Nationwide reported the first fall in prices for three years.
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WASHINGTON -- Sales of existing homes fell more than expected in April while prices slid for a record ninth consecutive month, indicating further troubles ahead for the housing market.
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Home prices in 10 major metropolitan areas fell a record 8.4 percent in the year through November, suggesting the housing slump is worsening, according to a Standard & Poor index released on Tuesday.
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Sales of previously owned U.S. homes fell more than expected in December, ending a year that brought the sharpest housing slowdown since 1982 and the first annual drop in prices since the Great Depression.
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The median price of a single-family home declined 1.8 percent to $217,800, the first annual decline since reliable records began in 1968.