Home prices fall by record 19.1 percent in Q1: S&P

The Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller National Home Price index released Tuesday reported home prices tumbled by 19.1 per cent in the first quarter, the most in its 21-year history.

The Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller National Home Price index released Tuesday reported home prices tumbled by 19.1 per cent in the first quarter, the most in its 21-year history.

Home prices have fallen 32.2 percent since peaking in the second quarter of 2006 and are at levels not seen since the end of 2002.

The 20-city index fell by 18.7 percent in March from the year before and the 10-city index lost 18.6 percent. But the rate of decline for both indexes slowed for the second month in a row.
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