U.S. Home Prices Appear to Have Bottomed Out

U.S. home prices appear have to scraped a bottom, with a leading national index showing three consecutive months of gains this summer.

The Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller index of home prices in 20 metropolitan areas showed a 1% increase in the seasonally adjusted median price of homes from July to August. The index has posted month-to-month gains since June.

“I think we have reached some kind of bottom,” David Blitzer, chairman of S&P’s Index Committee, said. U.S. home prices continued to decline in August, falling 11.3% when compared to the same month a year earlier, though not as steeply as past months, according to the data released this morning.

From the L.A. Times <a href=”alejandro.lazo@latimes.com”>alejandro.lazo@latimes.com</a>

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