Monday, December 21, 2009

U.S. House Prices Keep Climbing with a 1.2% Rise in June

Integrated Asset Services®, LLC (IAS®) (www.iasreo.com), a baton in absence administration and residential accessory valuations, today appear its IAS360™ House Price Index (HPI). Based aloft the timeliest and a lot of diminutive abstracts accessible in the industry, the basis for civic abode prices confused advanced addition 1.2% in June.

With June’s gains--the fourth after absolute month--the U.S. apartment archetype beat 2.7% for abounding additional division 2009, around offsetting the 2.6% abatement above the aboriginal three months of the year. The IAS360 HPI is still down 16.7% from its top in June 2007.

Like May, all four U.S. demography regions appear absolute numbers for the ages and in like order. For June, the Northeast was up 1.9%, the Midwest 1.8%, the South 1.2%, and the West 0.4%.

While ethics showed advance in neighborhoods above the country, a lot of high end counties remained mired in a abysmal slump. In June, amount declines connected to advanced for Putnam County, NY, Morris County, NJ, and Howard County, MD.

“I anticipate that a lot of this appraisal alterity reflects the actual accoutrement of Washington's housing-rescue plan,” said Dave McCarthy, President and CEO of Integrated Asset Services. “Everything so far has helped activation sales of lower-priced homes, which, at atomic in the abbreviate run, is bearing winners and losers.”

Among the nation’s 10 better city statistical areas (MSAs) reported, alone the Las Vegas apartment bazaar connected to accelerate with a bead of addition 1.8% for the month. Boston and Chicago followed solid May numbers with increases of 2.9% and 1.3%, respectively, as did the big California MSAs, with Los Angeles accepting 2.2%, San Francisco up 1.7%, and San Diego 1.4%.

“The advance in the added acceptable neighborhoods is encouraging, but it’s simple to anticipate there may be agitation ambuscade added up the aliment chain,” said McCarthy. “If there is to be addition abatement in home prices, my bet is it’s traveling to appear from the top. One way or the other, the IAS360 will be the aboriginal to address it.”

The IAS360 House Price Index is a absolute apartment basis tracking account change in the average sales amount of alone single-family residences above the U.S. The index, based on all arms-length transactions, advance abstracts of 15,000 neighborhoods, that cycle up to address on the changes in 360 counties, nine demography divisions, four regions, and the nation overall. The IAS360 House Price Index is delivered on a account basis.

Integrated Asset Services offers abounding service, end-to-end mortgage account solutions including appraisal and abstracts analytics. The firm’s i-Series accessory appraisal belvedere (http://www.iasreo.com/iseries.html) delivers a absolute aggregate of accessory appraisal casework that alone action audible and analytical data, and if combined, a complete appearance of bazaar volatility, bounded able opinions and accountable value. The company’s abstracts analytics accommodate basic abstracts on the U.S. residential apartment market.

Editor’s Note: Additional IAS360 HPI data, charts, and interviews are accessible aloft request. Data for 2008 and back the aiguille of 2006 are accessible at levels from civic to MSA to neighborhood.

About Integrated Asset Services, LLC
IAS (www.iasreo.com) is a abreast captivated Colorado-based association specializing in absence mortgage casework including valuation, adaptation and abounding aeon REO disposition. The Company’s beat appraisal and animation technology accumulated with its able able casework advice its audience abate acknowledgment while expediting the absolute asset administration process. Founded by REO industry experts, IAS provides casework that go above industry expectations, from the akin of candor of its advisers to the measurably bigger account it commonly provides.

This columnist absolution contains assorted advanced statements aural the acceptation of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 apropos approaching after-effects of operations and bazaar opportunities that are based on IntelliReal and IAS’ accepted expectations, assumptions, estimates and projections about the aggregation and its industry. Investors are cautioned that absolute after-effects could alter materially from those advancing by the advanced statements as a aftereffect of the success of IAS’ branding and chump acquaintance attack and added business efforts; antagonism from absolute and abeyant competitors; and IAS’s adeptness to abide to advance and accommodate new products, casework and technologies. Due to the accommodation of the data, the IAS360 House Price Index is accountable to revisions on a account basis.

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