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πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ US home prices post their softest annual gain since 2023, with Zoom towns slipping into outright nominal decline

πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ US home prices post their softest annual gain since 2023, with Zoom towns slipping into outright nominal decline

The Case-Shiller 20-City Composite rose 0.83% year-over-year in March, its softest annual gain in nearly three years, against a forecast of 0.90%. Denver fell 2.2% and Tampa 2.1%, while Chicago led with 5.0%: the Zoom-town correction is no longer a rounding error.

Line chart titled S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Indices showing year-over-year percent change for Composite-10 (gray), Composite-20 (black dashed), and National-US (red) from 1988 to 2026.
Case-Shiller national home prices rose just 0.7% year-over-year in March as more than half of major metros posted declines, pointing to a broadening slowdown in US housing. Source

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