Economist Karl Case, developer of Home Price Index, dies at 69

New York

KARL Case, an economics professor at Wellesley College who helped revolutionise how home prices are tracked by real estate professionals and homebuyers alike, has died in Wellesley, Massachusetts. He was 69.

Mr Case had Parkinson's disease and multiple myeloma and died in a hospice near his home on July 15, his wife, Susan, said.