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House price index. A house price index (HPI) measures the price changes of residential housing as a percentage change from some specific start date (which has an HPI of 100). Methodologies commonly used to calculate an HPI are hedonic regression (HR), simple moving average (SMA), and repeat-sales regression (RSR).
The 2000s United States housing bubble or house price boom or 2000s housing cycle[ 2] was a sharp run up and subsequent collapse of house asset prices affecting over half of the U.S. states. In many regions a real estate bubble, it was the impetus for the subprime mortgage crisis. Housing prices peaked in early 2006, started to decline in 2006 ...
The law establishing the FHFA is the Federal Housing Finance Regulatory Reform Act of 2008, which is Division A of the larger Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008, Public Law 110-289, signed on July 30, 2008 by President George W. Bush. One year after the law was signed, the OFHEO and the FHFB went out of existence.
House prices rose 0.2% month-on-month after being unchanged in March, the Federal Housing Finance Agency said on Tuesday. In the 12 months through April house prices increased 6.3% after advancing ...
Rates for a 15-year mortgage stand at an average 5.99% for purchase and 6.00% for refinance, down 1 basis point from 6.00% for purchase and down 7 basis points from 6.07% for refinance this time ...
The 30-year mortgage rate dropped to 6.47% as of August 8 — its lowest rate in more than a year, according to Freddie Mac. While this is still a far cry from the 2% and %3 days of a few years ...
The national indices. The S&P CoreLogic Case–Shiller U.S. National Home Price Index is a composite of single-family home price indices for the nine U.S. Census divisions. It is calculated monthly, using a three-month moving average. The S&P national index is normalized to have a value of 100 in the January 2000.
House prices rose a seasonally adjusted 0.8% for December, according to a Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) report (link opens as PDF) released today. Closing out 2013, this latest month's ...