CoreLogic® Home Price Index Shows Second Consecutive Month-Over-Month Increase

SANTA ANA, Calif., June 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- CoreLogic (NYSE: CLGX), a leading provider of information, analytics and business services, today released its May Home Price Index (HPI) which shows that home prices in the U.S. increased on a month-over-month basis.  According to the CoreLogic HPI, national home prices, including distressed sales, increased by 0.8 percent in May 2011 compared to April 2011, the second consecutive month-over-month increase.  On a year-over-year basis, home prices declined by 7.4 percent in May 2011 compared to May 2010 after declining by 6.7 percent* in April 2011 compared to April 2010. Excluding distressed sales, year-over-year prices declined by 0.4 percent in May 2011 compared to May 2010 and by 0.8* percent in April 2011 compared to April 2010.  Distressed sales include short sales and real estate owned (REO) transactions.      

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"Two consecutive months of month-over-month growth and continued relative strength in the non-distressed market segment are positive seasonal signs in the housing market.  Slowly declining shadow inventory and stabilized negative equity levels are also positive signs.  Nonetheless, the fragile economic recovery is still critical to the long-term recovery in the housing market," said Mark Fleming, chief economist for CoreLogic.

Highlights as of May 2011

• Including distressed sales, the five states with the highest appreciation were:  New York (+4.4 percent), Vermont (+3.9 percent), North Dakota (+3.8 percent), Hawaii (+2.5 percent) and the District of Columbia(+0.5 percent).
• Including distressed sales, the five states with the greatest depreciation were: Idaho (-16.4 percent), Michigan (-12.9 percent), Arizona (-12.1 percent), Illinois (-11.8 percent) and
• Nevada (-11.6 percent).
• Excluding distressed sales, the five states with the highest appreciation were: West Virginia (+10.1 percent), Hawaii(+9.0 percent), North Dakota(+8.6 percent), Vermont (+6.3 percent) and New York (+6.1 percent).
• Excluding distressed sales, the five states with the greatest depreciation were: Nevada (-9.8 percent), Idaho (-7.9 percent), Arizona (-7.0 percent), South Dakota (-6.1 percent) and Minnesota (-5.0 percent).
• Including distressed transactions, the peak-to-current change in the national HPI (from April 2006 to May 2011) was -32.7 percent.  Excluding distressed transactions, the peak-to-current change in the HPI for the same period was -21.2 percent.  
• Of the top 100 Core Based Statistical Areas (CBSAs) measured by population, 91* are showing year-over-year declines in May, unchanged from April.  

Full-month May 2011 national, state-level and top CBSA-level data can be found at http://www.corelogic.com/About-Us/ResearchTrends/Home-Price-Index.aspx

*April data was revised.  Revisions with public records data are standard, and to ensure accuracy, CoreLogic incorporates the newly released public data to provide updated results.  

Methodology

The CoreLogic HPI incorporates more than 30 years worth of repeat sales transactions, representing more than 55 million observations sourced from CoreLogic industry-leading property information and its securities and servicing databases. The CoreLogic HPI provides a multi-tier market evaluation based on price, time between sales, property type, loan type (conforming vs. nonconforming), and distressed sales. The CoreLogic HPI is a repeat-sales index that tracks increases and decreases in sales prices for the same homes over time, which provides a more accurate "constant-quality" view of pricing trends than basing analysis on all home sales. The CoreLogic HPI provides the most comprehensive set of monthly home price indices and median sales prices available covering 6,521 ZIP codes (58 percent of total U.S. population), 609 Core Based Statistical Areas (86 percent of total U.S. population) and 1,126 counties (83 percent of total U.S. population) located in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.  

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 and most comprehensive 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. The company, headquartered in Santa Ana, Calif., has more than 10,000 employees globally with 2010 revenues of $1.6 billion. For more information visit www.corelogic.com.

Source:  CoreLogic

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