WASHINGTON Cheap Nike Kyrie 6 Shoes , May 27 (Xinhua) -- U.S. house prices remained on an upward track in the first quarter of the year due to small home inventories for sale, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) reported Tuesday.
U.S. home prices increased 1.3 percent in the first quarter on a seasonally adjusted basis from the previous quarter, the eleventh consecutive quarterly price increase, according to the FHFA's House Price Index,
"Although the first quarter saw relatively weak real estate transaction activity -- in part due to seasonal factors -- home prices continued to push higher in the first quarter Cheap Nike Kyrie 5 Shoes ," said FHFA principal economist Andrew Leventis in a statement. "Modest inventories of homes available for sale likely played a significant role in driving the price increase, which was similar to appreciation in the preceding quarter."
Of the nine census divisions, the Pacific division, including states of Hawaii, Alaska Cheap Nike Kyrie 4 Shoes , Washington, Oregon and California, has witnessed the strongest price increase, up 2.1 percent compared with last quarter and 13.2 percent on an annual basis.
The S&PCase-Shiller index, an index for 20 U.S. major cities home prices released on the same day Cheap Nike Kyrie Shoes , also showed an increase of 12.4 percent in March compared with the same period last year.
The cooling of the house market, however, has become more obvious, as the annual house price growth rate for Pacific division in March is more than three percentage points below the rate for the preceding 12 months, said FHFA.
The gain in house prices of 20 U.S. major cities for March has slid to the lowest level since July last year http://www.cheapnikekyrieforsale.com/ , according to the S& PCase-Shiller index.
The FHFA measured changes in real estate values using purchases of properties with mortgages backed by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac. It did not provide a specific price for houses.
GEORGE CLOONEY plans to sue France’s Voici magazine for publishing photos of his twin babies, as well as the paparazzi who illegally shot the images, the actor says in a statement to Gossip Cop.
The cover of the latest issue of Voici features the first pictures of Clooney’s twin boy and girl, Ella and Alexander, who his wife Amal gave birth to in early June. The images show the parents holding their babies at the actor’s Lake Como estate in Italy Cheap Kyrie Irving Shoes Clearance , but they were illegally obtained by photographers who broke onto the family’s property.
Clooney says in response to the invasion of privacy, “Over the last week photographers from Voici magazine scaled our fence, climbed our tree and illegally took pictures of our infants inside our home,” Clooney says in a statement. “Make no mistake the photographers, the agency and the magazine will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. The safety of our children demands it.”
This is not the first time Clooney has gone after the paparazzi in Italy. As Gossip Cop reported in 2009 Cheap Kyrie Irving Shoes Pink , after another photographer allegedly scaled a wall at the actor’s Lake Como home and snapped a topless shot of a friend’s 13-year-old daughter changing in one of his guestrooms, the Oscar winner said he would sue both the brazen paparazzo and the two magazines that published the pictures. There were also photos taken of Clooney and his then-girlfriend Elisabetta Canalis relaxing privately in his yard.
LUSAKA, April 25 (Xinhua) -- Boxing authorities in Zambia have arranged a tournament with Kenyan boxers to fix a team to compete in this year's Glasgow Commonwealth Games, the Zambia Daily Mail reported on Friday.
Zambia has picked six amateur boxers to represent the country at the 2014 Commonwealth Games