Monday, Feb 01, 2010

Hometrack: +0.1% MoM, -0.8% YoY

Reuters: House prices fall in Jan

Misleading article title by Reuters, Hometrack actually says prices rose 0.1% in January, and the annual rate of decline eased from 1.9% in December to 0.8% in January.
"Today the proportion of the asking price being achieved is 93.5 percent compared to 88 percent at the start of 2009," said Richard Donnell, director of research at Hometrack.

Posted by little professor @ 12:12 AM (632 views) Add Comment

3 Comments

1. devo said...

where is the number of monthly transactions for january?

Monday, February 1, 2010 12:20AM Report Comment
 

2. little professor said...

Hometrack data is based on EA's estimates of achievable asking prices - they don't reflect completed transactions

Monday, February 1, 2010 12:45AM Report Comment
 

3. devo said...

perhaps they should

Monday, February 1, 2010 12:49AM Report Comment
 

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