Slight increase predicted for Milwaukee-area home prices

Special to The Freeman

May 16, 2013

MILWAUKEE - Corelogic Case-Shiller is predicting a small increase in Milwaukee-area home prices, even though they remain down slightly compared with last year.

The index reported metro Milwaukee prices were down 0.2 percent between the end of 2012 and 2011. However, a 0.4 percent increase is expected between the fourth quarter of 2013 and the end of last year. By the end of 2014, a larger growth of 6.1 percent is expected.

Nationwide, home prices grew 7.3 percent in 2012, which is the largest growth in seven years.

Corelogic acquired the Case-Shiller indexes from Brookfield-based Fiserv Inc. March 20 for $6 million.