by Calculated Risk on 5/11/2015 09:31:00 AM
Monday, May 11, 2015
FNC: Residential Property Values increased 4.6% year-over-year in March
In addition to Case-Shiller, and CoreLogic, I'm also watching the FNC, Zillow and several other house price indexes.
FNC released their March 2015 index data today. FNC reported that their Residential Price Index™ (RPI) indicates that U.S. residential property values increased 0.9% from February to March (Composite 100 index, not seasonally adjusted).
The 10 city MSA increased 0.6% in March, and the 20-MSA and 30-MSA RPIs both increased by about 0.9% in March. These indexes are not seasonally adjusted (NSA), and are for non-distressed home sales (excluding foreclosure auction sales, REO sales, and short sales).
Notes: In addition to the composite indexes, FNC presents price indexes for 30 MSAs. FNC also provides seasonally adjusted data.
The year-over-year (YoY) change was slightly higher in March than in February, with the 100-MSA composite up 4.6% compared to March 2014. For FNC, the YoY increase had been slowing since peaking in March at 9.0%, but had held steady for the last few months.
The index is still down 18.6% from the peak in 2006 (not inflation adjusted).
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This graph shows the year-over-year change based on the FNC index (four composites) through March 2015. The FNC indexes are hedonic price indexes using a blend of sold homes and real-time appraisals.
Most of the other indexes are also showing the year-over-year change mostly steady at around 5% for the last several months.
Note: The March Case-Shiller index will be released on Tuesday, May 26th.