WASHINGTON (AP) – Sept. 1, 2010 – U.S. home prices rose in June for the third straight month amid a burst of homebuying due to tax incentives that have since expired.
The Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller 20-city home price index posted a 1 percent increase in June from May and was up 4.2 percent from a year ago. Home prices nationally were up 4.8 percent in the second quarter compared with the first quarter, largely due to government tax credits of up to $8,000 that caused sales to surge.
Seventeen cities showed price gains on a monthly basis. Prices in Seattle and Portland (Oregon) were flat from a month ago, while prices in Las Vegas fell.
Nationally, prices have risen 6 percent from their April 2009 bottom. But they remain 28 percent below their July 2006 peak.
Copyright © 2010 The Associated Press, Alan Zibel, AP real estate writer.
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