U.S. economic data due for release Thursday includes the third-quarter GDP estimate, the weekly jobless claims report, the Chicago Fed national activity index, the University of Michigan consumer sentiment survey, the U.S. house price index and leading economic indicators.
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The government has its own monthly house price index, issued by the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG).
U.S. economic data due for release Thursday includes the weekly jobless claims report, leading economic indicators and the U.S. house price index.
Early on the UK Nationwide House Price Index disappointed pound bulls with a reading of only 0.1% growth versus the 0.3% expected.
U.S. economic data due for release Wednesday includes the weekly MBA mortgage applications survey, the weekly Goldman Sachs and Johnson Redbook retail sales reports, the house price index.
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The Knight Frank Global House Price Index established in 2006 is a way for investors and developers to monitor and compare the performance of mainstream residential markets across the world.
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U.S. economic data due for release Wednesday includes the weekly MBA mortgage applications survey, the U.S. house price index, new residential sales, and the weekly DOE liquid energy stocks report.
U.S. economic data due for release Wednesday includes the weekly MBA mortgage applications survey, the U.S. house price index, the weekly DOE energy stocks report and the FOMC meeting results.
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U.S. economic data due for release Thursday includes the weekly jobless claims report, the U.S. flash manufacturing PMI, the monthly house price index, existing home sales, leading economic indicators, and the Philadelphia Fed business survey.
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U.S. economic data due for release Thursday includes the weekly jobless claims report, the U.S. flash manufacturing PMI, existing home sales, leading economic indicators, the Philadelphia Fed business survey, and the monthly house price index.
U.S. economic data due for release Wednesday includes the weekly MBA mortgage applications survey, pending home sales, the monthly house price index, the weekly DOE energy stocks report, and the FOMC statement and Fed chairman press conference.
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Two weeks ago, real estate consulting firm Knight Frank said that China housing prices rose 9.3% in 2012, while Hong Kong housing prices rose the most out of all the 55 countries and cities in their Global House Price Index, up 23.6%.
Other U.S. economic reports due for release Thursday are many and include the weekly jobless claims report, the consumer confidence index, revised corporate profits, existing home sales, leading economic indicators, the Philadelphia Fed business survey, the monthly house price index, and foreign central bank holdings.
Lloyds TSB Scotland's report also found that the Scottish House Price Monitor, a quarterly index of average house prices adjusted for location, property type and season, fell from 290 to 287 between November 2012 and January this year.
On a quarterly basis, prices are falling in half of the 20 countries in The Economist's house-price index.
On a quarterly basis prices are now falling in at least half the 20 countries in The Economist's house-price index.
Castle Trust, a yet-to-be-authorised lender in Britain backed by JC Flowers, a private-equity firm, plans to offer savers investment products tied to a national house-price index.
You can have a broker sell futures contracts on your behalf in Chicago, where traders have lately been betting that the house-price index in Los Angeles will fall only 11.5% over the next two years.
In the same quarter the index of house prices calculated by the Australian Bureau of Statistics accelerated.
None of these elements alone explains why British houses are overpriced by around 30%, according to The Economist's index of house prices to rents, but they are all part of the mix.
In its press-freedom index, Freedom House ranks Belarus 188th out of 195 countries.
And judging by the price of futures contracts based on the Case-Shiller composite index, investors expect house prices to fall further.
And, yes, Vanguard pushes the in-house goods, particularly its signature index funds.
House prices are not part of America's inflation index but their decline is forcing households to reduce debt (see article), which could subdue economic growth for years.
This will change on September 15th when the index will be published every month, starting with house prices in July.
Of the 20 cities tracked by the Case-Shiller index, only New York saw a moderate fall in house prices since a year earlier, down 1.2%.
Nationally, house prices have fallen between 3% and 13% depending on which index you look at.
The index reversed a drop of as much as 24 points amid news that House Republican leaders are considering a plan to extend the federal borrowing limit for three months.
Moreover, you suggest that monetary policy can be guided by an index that combines conventional measures of consumer prices with an arbitrary measure of inflation in current house transactions.
This index, which The Economist has long used in its quarterly round-up of global house prices, suggests American homes were worth 4.3% more in the first quarter of 2007 than they were a year earlier.
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