NJ Home Prices Dipped in October

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New Jersey home prices dip in October as housing market ‘catches its breath’

By Tom De Poto/The Star-Ledger
on December 03, 2013 at 4:40 PM, updated December 03, 2013 at 5:08 PM

Home prices in New Jersey remained stagnant between September and October, reflecting a nationwide cooling down-period for the real estate market, according to a monthly Home Price Index report from CoreLogic, a real estate analytic firm.

The average price of a single-family home in New Jersey fell by 0.33 percent month-to-month. In the Newark region, one of the statistical areas studied by CoreLogic, prices slipped by 0.74 percent. Atlantic City and the Jersey City-New York-White Plains area saw gains of 0.19 percent and 1.21 percent respectively. Camden and Trenton saw declines of 0.66 percent and 0.27 percent.

Nationally, prices increased 0.2 percent.

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