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Wednesday, March 25, 2020

FHFA: House Prices up 5.2% YoY in January

by Calculated Risk on 3/25/2020 09:35:00 AM

From the FHFA: FHFA House Price Index Up 0.3 Percent in January; Up 5.2 Percent from Last Year

U.S. house prices rose in January, up 0.3 percent from the previous month, according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) House Price Index (HPI). House prices rose 5.2 percent from January 2019 to January 2020. The previously reported 0.6 percent increase for December 2019 was revised upward to 0.7 percent.

“U.S. house prices continued to increase at a moderate pace in January,” according to Dr. Lynn Fisher, Deputy Director of the Division of Research and Statistics at FHFA. “Transactions in January were unlikely to reflect much, if any, influence from the COVID-19 outbreak. House prices in the Pacific and South Atlantic regions grew somewhat faster over the year ending in January 2020 than observed the same time a year ago.”
This is pre-crisis.