CoreLogic® Home Price Index Shows Continued Increases in Home Prices for Both Year-Over-Year and Month-Over-Month Figures in May

SANTA ANA, Calif., July 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CoreLogic (NYSE: CLGX), a leading provider of information, analytics and business services, today released its Home Price Index (HPI) which shows that home prices in the U.S. increased in May, the fourth-consecutive month showing a year-over-year increase.

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According to the CoreLogic HPI, national home prices, including distressed sales, increased by 2.9 percent in May 2010 compared to May 2009 and increased by 3.5 percent* in April 2010 compared to April 2009.  Excluding distressed sales, year-over-year prices only increased by 0.9 percent in May, and April's non-distressed HPI increased by 0.4 percent.

On a month-over-month basis, May's HPI was 0.9 percent higher than the April 2010 HPI., but the rate of increase was lower than the 1.3 percent gain from March 2010 to April 2010.

"Home price appreciation stabilized as homebuyer tax credit driven sales peaked in late spring," said Mark Fleming, chief economist for CoreLogic. "But given that the labor market and income growth remain tepid we expect prices to moderate and possibly decline the rest of the year."

The full May 2010 report, including national, state-level, and top metro-level data can be found at www.corelogic.com/About-Us/ResearchTrends/Home-Price-Index-Report---May-2010.aspx.

*April 2010 data was revised up from 2.6 percent to 3.5 percent.  Revisions with public record data are standard, and to ensure accuracy CoreLogic incorporates the newly released public data to provide updated results.  

About CoreLogic

CoreLogic (NYSE: CLGX) is a leading provider of consumer, financial and property information, analytics and services to business and government. The company combines public, contributory and proprietary data to develop predictive decision analytics and provide business services that bring dynamic insight and transparency to the markets it serves. CoreLogic has built the largest U.S. real estate, mortgage application, fraud, and loan performance databases and is a recognized leading provider of mortgage and automotive credit reporting, property tax, valuation, flood determination, and geospatial analytics and services. More than one million users rely on CoreLogic to assess risk, support underwriting, investment and marketing decisions, prevent fraud, and improve business performance in their daily operations. Formerly the information solutions group of The First American Corporation, CoreLogic began trading under the ticker CLGX on the NYSE on June 2, 2010. The company, headquartered in Santa Ana, Calif., has more than 10,000 employees globally with 2009 revenues of $2 billion.  For more information visit www.corelogic.com

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