May 10, 2011 11:32AM Home prices fell faster in the first quarter of this year than at any time since the worst of the housing crisis according to the Real Estate Market Report released by Zillow. The Seattle firm's Home Value Index fell to $169,000, down 3 percent compared to the fourth quarter of 2009, the largest quarter-over-quarter decline since the fourth quarter of 2008, and 8.2 percent compared to the first quarter of 2010 . The company now predicts that the market will not reach bottom until 2012 at the earliest... May 10, 2011 9:58AM The April edition of the Housing Scorecard has been issued by Treasury and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). It showed "continued mixed signals and some signs of weakness in the market - despite growing evidence of progress in the broader economy," according to Assistant HUD Secretary Raphael Bostic. The Obama Administration's monthly housing scorecard recaps data from a number of reports issued earlier by both public and private sources such as the U.S. Census, S&P Case...
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