by Jill Mislinski
Financial Sense
With today’s release of the February S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price, we learned that seasonally adjusted home prices for the benchmark 20-city index were up month over month at 0.7%. The seasonally adjusted year-over-year change has hovered between 4.8% and 5.7% for the last twelve months.
The adjacent column chart illustrates the month-over-month change in the seasonally adjusted 20-city index, which tends to be the most closely watched of the Case-Shiller series. It was up 0.7% from the previous month. The nonseasonally adjusted index was up 5.4% year-over-year.
Investing.com had forecast a 0.8% MoM seasonally adjusted increase and 5.5% YoY nonseasonally adjusted for the 20-city series.