04-29-08
 
Home prices sink at record clip; foreclosures keep mounting
 
NEW YORK (AP) -- In a bad omen for sellers and lenders this spring home selling season, the erosion of house values is accelerating and foreclosure filings are doubling, new data showed Tuesday.
 
A closely watched index of home prices in 20 cities fell almost 13 percent in February from a year earlier, a record for the seven-year-old S&P's/Case-Shiller Home Price index. The report follows news that foreclosure filings between January and March also hit a new high, and comes a day after the government said the number of vacant homes on the market also hit a record. Read more at: http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080429/home_prices.html