There was a 4.2 percent drop in home prices during the first quarter according to the widely watched S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices report, which was just released.
And after the 3.6 percent decline in fourth-quarter 2010, prices have "hit a new recession low" and are down 5.1 percent from first-quarter 2010.
"Nationally, home prices are back to their mid-2002 levels," the report adds.
According to David Blitzer, chairman of the Index Committee at S&P Indices, we now have "confirmation of a double-dip in home prices across much of the nation."
Our friends at Planet Money make sense of the economic news over here.
Update at 9:20 a.m. ET. More from the report:
In March, according to the report, prices fell from February in all but two of the 20 major cities where S&P/Case-Shiller tracks sales.
Changes In Home Prices, March From February:
Atlanta -1.9%
Boston -1.7%
Charlotte -2.4%
Chicago -2.4%
Cleveland -1.8%
Dallas -0.8%
Denver -0.6%
Detroit -2.0%
Las Vegas -1.1%
Los Angeles -0.3%
Miami -0.8%
Minneapolis -3.7%
New York -0.9%
Phoenix -0.5%
Portland -0.7%
San Diego -0.8%
San Francisco -0.1%
Seattle 0.1%
Tampa -0.7%
Washington 1.1%
Source: S&P/Case-Shiller
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