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June 30, 2015US S&P/CASE-SHILLER HOME PRICE INDICES, APRIL 2015 Data through April 2015, released by the S&P Dow Jones Indices for its S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices, showed that the Composite 10-City and Composite 20-City indicators increased by 0.4 per cent and 0.3 per cent (respectively) on a month to month comparison (seasonally adjusted). Increases in US home prices slowed through the middle of 2014 but have been rising since last September.
On a year-over-year basis the 10-City and 20-City Composites recorded gains of 4.6 and 4.9 percent, respectively. On a city by city basis, Denver, Colorado (+10.3%) recorded the largest gain. While continuing to show positive year-over-year gains, Washington DC and Cleveland (1.1% and 1.3% year over year) showed the smallest price increase over April 2014 (year over year comparisons are made with non seasonally adjusted data).
Source: S&P Down Jones Indices