S&P/Case-Shiller released the monthly Home Price Indices for October (actually a 3 month average of August, September and October).



This includes prices for 20 individual cities and and two composite indices (for 10 cities and 20 cities).



Note: Case-Shiller reports NSA, I use the SA data.



From S&P: U.S. Home Prices Weaken Further as Six Cities Make New Lows

Data through October 2010, released today by Standard & Poor’s for its S&P/Case-Shiller1 Home Price Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices, show a deceleration in the annual growth rates in 18 of the 20 MSAs and the 10- and 20-City Composites in October compared to what was reported for September 2010. The 10-City Composite was up only 0.2% and the 20-City Composite fell 0.8% from their levels in October 2009. Home prices decreased in all 20 MSAs and both Composites in October from their September levels. In October, only the 10-City Composite and four MSAs – Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco and Washington DC – showed year-over-year gains. While the composite housing prices are still above their spring 2009 lows, six markets – Atlanta, Charlotte, Miami, Portland (OR), Seattle and Tampa – hit their lowest levels since home prices started to fall in 2006 and 2007, meaning that average home prices in those markets have fallen beyond the recent lows seen in most other markets in the spring of 2009.

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The first graph shows the nominal seasonally adjusted Composite 10 and Composite 20 indices (the Composite 20 was started in January 2000).The Composite 10 index is off 30.7% from the peak, and down 0.9% in October(SA).The Composite 20 index is off 30.5% from the peak, and down 1.0% in October (SA). The second graph shows the Year over year change in both indices.The Composite 10 SA is up 0.2% compared to October 2009.The Composite 20 SA is down 0.8% compared to October 2009. This is the first year-over-year decline since 2009.The third graph shows the price declines from the peak for each city included in S&P/Case-Shiller indices. Prices increased (SA) in only 2 of the 20 Case-Shiller cities in October seasonally adjusted. Only Denver and Wash, D.C. saw small price increases (SA) in October, and prices fell in all cities NSA.Prices in Las Vegas are off 57.8% from the peak, and prices in Dallas only off 8.6% from the peak.Prices are now falling - and falling just about everywhere. As S&P noted "six markets – Atlanta, Charlotte, Miami, Portland (OR), Seattle and Tampa – hit their lowest levels since home prices started to fall in 2006 and 2007". More cities will join them soon.