"Year-over-year and monthly price returns are continuing to either move deeper into negative territory or are experiencing persistent diminishing returns. There is really no positive news in today's report, as most of the metro areas are showing declining or vanishing returns on both an annual and monthly basis. Only two metro areas - Denver and Detroit - showed improvement in their annual returns and even those were reports of slightly less negative numbers."
Tampa surpassed Detroit in August, reporting a double-digit annual decline of 10.1%. Detroit followed with -9.3% and San Diego with -8.3%. Remarkably, in August eight of the 20 metro areas reported their lowest recorded annual returns - these cities are Cleveland, Las Vegas, Miami, Minneapolis, Phoenix, San Diego, Tampa, & Washington D.C. The S&P/Case-Shiller(R) Home Price Indices are published on the last Tuesday of each month at 9:00 am ET. They are constructed to accurately track the price path of typical single-family homes located in each metropolitan area provided. Each index combines matched price pairs for thousands of individual houses from the available universe of arms-length sales data. The S&P/Case-Shiller(R) National U.S. Home Price Index tracks the value of single- family housing within the United States.
The index is a composite of single- family home price indices for the nine U.S. Census divisions and is calculated quarterly. The S&P/Case-Shiller(R) Composite of 10 Home Price Index is a value-weighted average of the 10 original metro area indices. The S&P/Case- Shiller(R) Composite of 20 Home Price Index is a value-weighted average of the 20 metro area indices. The indices have a base value of 100 in January 2000; thus, for example, a current index value of 150 translates to a 50% appreciation rate since January 2000 for a typical home located within the subject market.