Housing Market Archives

Home prices up 9.7% year-over-year in January, CoreLogic reports

March 6th, 2013

By Jim Puzzanghera March 5, 2013, 6:49 a.m. WASHINGTON — U.S. home prices rose 9.7% in January from a year earlier, the biggest increase since 2006, a real estate data analysis firm reported Tuesday. Southern California was among the best performing regions in the country, according to Irvine-based CoreLogic. Prices were up 12.2% in the […]

Modest Construction Recovery Will Be Supproted By Two More Years Of Cheap Credit

August 10th, 2011

Jim Haughey, RCD Chief Economist The FRB had to do something quickly and dramatically to dampen the downward spiral of confidence and spending, similar to late 2008, that began earlier this year and threatened to become much more serious earlier this month. This was the only option available. Already, it is clear that the expected […]