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Greater Boston home sale prices rise slightly

by Warren Reynolds on February 24, 2011

Greater Boston home sale prices are stabilizing and even rising a little according to seasonally adjusted home price data released this week by Standard & Poors.  Seasonally adjusted home sale prices in the metro area rose 0.8% in December, the most recent month covered by the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index for Boston. First rise in [...]

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How to know where MA home prices are really headed

by Warren Reynolds on January 26, 2011

It can sometimes be hard to know exactly where home prices in Massachusetts are headed. That’s because local sale price statistics can be heavily influenced by the passing of the seasons. Take a look at the following chart showing the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index for Boston over the last seven years: You can see that [...]

Greater Boston home sale prices drop 2 percent since May

by Warren Reynolds on December 1, 2010

Greater Boston single family home sale prices have declined almost 2% since peaking last May, according to data issued yesterday by Standard and Poors. Decline follows end of Federal tax credits The 1.92% drop in the seasonally adjusted version of the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index for Boston has come on the heels of the expiration [...]

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Greater Boston home prices rose a solid 1.4% in April 2010, according to figures released today by Standard and Poors.  The jump in the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index for Boston marked the first time in eight months that metro Boston home prices moved upwards.  April 2010 is the most recent monthly home price reading available [...]

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Home prices in the metro Boston region have been falling for seven straight months, according to the Case-Shiller Home Price Index for Boston issued monthly by Standard and Poors . However, the Boston Index was basically unchanged in March 2010, perhaps signaling the end to the recent downtrend. The Boston Index is published with a [...]

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What direction is Massachusetts real estate headed in 2010?  To judge from the conflicting statistics published this week by two highly-respected real estate tracking firms, the current state of home sales in MA seems highly confused.  But the apparent muddle in MA real estate stats may derive from the different data sets being reported on by [...]

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Boston home prices rise 6.9 percent from 2009 lows

by Warren Reynolds on October 27, 2009

Greater Boston home prices have risen an impressive 6.9 percent from their lows set last March, according to figures released today by Standard and Poors.  The gain marks quite a near-term turnaround for Boston metro home prices.   The S&P/Case-Shiller Index for the Boston metro area has now risen for the fifth month in a row after [...]

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Boston MA home prices recover 2009 losses

by Warren Reynolds on September 29, 2009

The S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index for Greater Boston has erased all of the declines it experienced in 2009 and is now higher than it was back in December 2008.   Standard and Poor’s announced today that the Boston Case-Shiller Index rose 1.2% in July 2009 to stand at 154.53.  The Boston Index was at 153.05 last [...]

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Boston Home Prices Rise Again

by Warren Reynolds on July 29, 2009

For the second month in a row, home prices rose in the greater Boston area according to figures released by Standard and Poor’s.  The S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index for Boston increased 1.6% in May 2009, the Index’s most recent reporting period. From the March’s low reading of 145.83, the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index for Boston [...]

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Home Prices Rise in Boston

by Warren Reynolds on June 30, 2009

Home owners throughout Massachusetts received some very welcome news today from Standard and Poor’s.   Boston metro area home prices rose 0.4% in April 2009 according to new figures in the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index. First Rise in 8 Months April’s home price rise breaks what was up until now an 8 month stretch of home [...]

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