Minneapolis home prices drop… again

The South is hot again. The north isn’t.

That’s the takeaway from today’s release of home resale values for March via the Standard and Poor’s Case Shiller Index.

The experts seem fairly happy that the prices overall rose but look who’s dragging things down: those Northerners.

Here’s the change from February:

City
Change from February
Phoenix
2.2%
Seattle
1.7%
Dallas
1.6%
Denver
1.5%
Tampa
1.3%
Charlotte
1.2%
San Francisco
1.0%
Washington
1.0%
Miami
0.9%
Portland
0.5%
San Diego
0.4%
Cleveland
0.4%
Los Angeles
0.1%
Las Vegas
0.0%
Boston
-0.2%
Atlanta
-0.9%
Minneapolis
-0.9%
New York
-0.9%
Chicago
-2.5%
Detroit
-4.4%

Of course, many of those southern cities were in a race to the bottom during the worst of the housing crisis. Either way, the situation is still nothing to write home about. Check out the change over the last two years.

City
Change over last two years
Washington
0.6%
Dallas
-1.1%
Denver
-1.3%
Detroit
-1.5%
Phoenix
-2.9%
Boston
-3.6%
Miami
-3.7%
Charlotte
-4.7%
Los Angeles
-6.4%
San Diego
-6.6%
New York
-6.7%
Minneapolis
-6.8%
San Francisco
-7.9%
Tampa
-8.0%
Cleveland
-8.4%
Seattle
-8.7%
Portland
-10.2%
Las Vegas
-12.4%
Chicago
-14.2%
Atlanta
-20.4%

“You have to pick to find real negatives in (the report),” the founder of the survey said on CNBC this morning. Hint: It’s in Minnesota.