Friday, December 07, 2007

Housing Price Index: Down for the 1st Time in 52 Quarters


This is a graph of the Housing Price Index from the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight which shows the Housing Price Index on a quarterly basis since 1975. It is hard to see from the chart but this index had only dropped nine times during this time frame:

1975-3rd quarter
1982-3rd quarter
1990-2nd quarter
1990-4th quarter
1991-3rd quarter
1992-2nd quarter
1993-1st quarter
1994-4th quarter
2007-3rd quarter

The latest drop for the third quarter of 2007 is the first quarterly drop in 52 quarters.

By Fred Fuld at Stockerblog.com

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