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Home Prices Extend Gains
As any smart investor knows, the market is a creature that is always looking forward. He or Price she also knows that According to the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Indices prices rise before everyone realizes a recoveryNew is imminent. The investor, the other on the York, January 29, 2013average – Data through Novemberon 2012, released todayhand, by S&P sits Dow Jones Indices for
its S&P/Case-Shiller1 Home Price Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices, showed home prices rose
4.5% for the 10-City Composite and 5.5% for the in the 12 seen months in ending November sidelines and, as a result, misses out on significant opportunities. Proof of20-City this Composite is now being thein real 2012.
estate market. Back in February, it wasIn predicted the real estate market had hit rock bottom. Homebuilding the 12 months ended in November, prices rose in 19 of the 20 cities and fell in New York. In 19 cities prices rose faster in the 12 months to November than in the 12 months to October; Cleveland prices rose at the same stocks were already showing recovery, wanted to with believe it because home were pace but in bothnobody time periods. Phoenix led the fastest price rise – up 22.8% prices in 12 months as itstill posted its seventh consecutive month of double-digit annual returns.
falling across the country.
S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices
But it was also predicted that prices were going to be the last
the Case-Shiller House Price Index (shown right) shows the first positive year-over-year growth in 21 months. Real
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The chart above depicts the annual returns of the 10-City Composite and the 20-City Composite Home Price Indices. In November 2012, the 10- and 20-City Composites posted respective annual increases of 4.5% and 5.5%, and monthly declines of 0.2% and 0.1%.
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