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Residential homes in San Francisco, Califo adidas campus rnia, US, on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022.David Paul Morris鈥擝loomberg/Getty ImagesBy Prashant Gopal / BloombergSeptember 27, 2022 1:21 PM EDTSay goodbye to the housing bull run. U.S. home pricesmdash;for the first time in a decademdash;are falling.A national measure of prices in 20 large cities fell 0.44% in July, the first drop since March 2012, the SP CoreLogic Case-Shiller index showed Tuesday. The last real estate crash ended in 2012, ushering in 10 years of price gains, capped off by the two-year pandemic buying frenzy.But the Federal Reserve has put a swift end to the party as it fights to curb inflation. Mortgage rates this year doubled, pricing out many buyers and causing sales to plunge. Now values are heading south. The biggest month-over-month declines in July were in San Francisco -3.6% mizuno , Seattle -2.5% and San Diego -2% .Read More: Signs Are Pointing to a Slowdown in the Housing Marketmdash;At LastThe cooling has come hard and fast, Stephen Stanley, chief economist at Amherst Pierpoint, said in a note.To be sure, prices remain hig nike dunk h. The Case-Shiller national index jumped 15.8% year-over-year in July. But that was the smallest gain since April 2021, and the slowdown from the 18.1% jump in June was the largest deceleration in the history of the index.There are also signs that there is plenty of pent-up demand for housing. U.S. sales of new homes surged unexpectedly in August, government data showed Tuesd
Visitors take a walk during a polluted day at Tiananmen Square in Beijing on Jan. 15, 2015.Kim Kyung-Hoon鈥擱eutersBy Emily Rauhala / BeijingJanuary 15, 2015 4:30 AM ESTDeep down, Beijing knew it was coming. But against all odds, the 21 million residents of Chi stanley cup na capital hoped that the cold chemical soup that passes for air might not be so bad this winter, sparing the city another airpocalypse.But just two weeks into the year, Beijing is on yellow alert mdash; the third highest in a four-tiered government pollution warning system. The U.S. embassy said its air-quality index, measuring PM2.5 particulates, had hit 545 anything above 300 is considered hazardous . Visibility is expected to drop to 500 m. Not that anybody who has a choice will be looking outside.This year first spell of particularly putrid air comes on the heels of news that the region air-pollution problem is, believe it or not, improving. Earlier stanley cup this month, local authorities reported that average air pollution was actually down slightly in 2014.That good news, although the level of the most dangerous particulate matter was still more than three times the recommended limit.Besides, the rep stanley cup ort is unlikely to cheer Beijing pollution-weary residents, who today took to social media to share pictures of the sullen sky:What hazardous Beijing smog looks like today: pic.twitter/1eBrU7Xjv7mdash; Jack Chang @JackTChang January 15, 2015Beijing AQI curr Qwgo It Feels Like a Dagger in the Heart: Brother and Sister Among Brussels Victims
Residential homes in San Francisco, Califo adidas campus rnia, US, on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022.David Paul Morris鈥擝loomberg/Getty ImagesBy Prashant Gopal / BloombergSeptember 27, 2022 1:21 PM EDTSay goodbye to the housing bull run. U.S. home pricesmdash;for the first time in a decademdash;are falling.A national measure of prices in 20 large cities fell 0.44% in July, the first drop since March 2012, the SP CoreLogic Case-Shiller index showed Tuesday. The last real estate crash ended in 2012, ushering in 10 years of price gains, capped off by the two-year pandemic buying frenzy.But the Federal Reserve has put a swift end to the party as it fights to curb inflation. Mortgage rates this year doubled, pricing out many buyers and causing sales to plunge. Now values are heading south. The biggest month-over-month declines in July were in San Francisco -3.6% mizuno , Seattle -2.5% and San Diego -2% .Read More: Signs Are Pointing to a Slowdown in the Housing Marketmdash;At LastThe cooling has come hard and fast, Stephen Stanley, chief economist at Amherst Pierpoint, said in a note.To be sure, prices remain hig nike dunk h. The Case-Shiller national index jumped 15.8% year-over-year in July. But that was the smallest gain since April 2021, and the slowdown from the 18.1% jump in June was the largest deceleration in the history of the index.There are also signs that there is plenty of pent-up demand for housing. U.S. sales of new homes surged unexpectedly in August, government data showed Tuesd