U.S. Home Prices Continue Upward Trend According to the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices

S&P/Case-Shiller

25 August  2015

Home Price Gains Lead Housing According to the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices

S&P Dow Jones Indices today released the latest results for the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, the leading measure of U.S. Home Prices.  Data released today for May 2015 show that home prices continued their rise across the country over the last 12 months.

Year-over-Year

The 10-City Composite and National indices showed slightly higher year-over-year gains while the 20-City Composite had marginally  lower year-over-year gains when compared to last month.  The 10-City Composite gained 4.7% year-over-year, while the 20-City Composite gained 4.9% year-over-year.  The S&P/Case-Shiller National Home Price Index, covering all nine U.S. census divisions, recorded a 4.4% annual increase in May 2015 versus a 4.3% increase in April 2015.

Denver, San Francisco, and Dallas reported the highest year-over-year gains among the 20 cities with price increases of 10.0%, 9.7%, and 8.4%, respectively.  Ten cities reported greater price increases in the year ended May 2015 over the year ended in April 2015.  New York and Phoenix reported six consecutive months of increases in their year-over-year returns since November 2014.  Year-over-year returns in New York increased 1.3% in November 2014 to 3.0% in May 2015, and Phoenix climbed from 2.0% to 3.8% in the same period.

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