Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Chicago home prices fall less than in U.S.

Reuters:
Prices of single-family homes plunged a record 16.35 percent in July from a year earlier, according to the Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices.

The Chicago area didn’t do as badly, with prices down 10 percent in July compared with July 2007, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller numbers.

The S&P/Case-Shiller composite index of 20 metropolitan areas fell 0.9 percent in July from June, S&P said in a statement Tuesday. Since the peak of the housing boom in July 2006, the index has dropped 19.5 percent, it said.

In the Chicago area, prices were down 0.35 percent in July compared with June.

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