Steve, a few places may dodge the bullets. This from MSN bus. week today.
As home sales slide, foreclosure rates rise and big lenders go bankrupt, it's hard to think of the glass being half-full, rather than half-empty, when it comes to real estate these days.
Unless, that is, you live in Salt Lake City. Or Binghamton, N.Y., Salem, Ore., or Allentown, Pa. In these U.S. metropolitan areas, and in 93 others, existing-single-family-home prices actually increased in the second quarter of 2007 from a year earlier, according to the National Association of Realtors. The national median home price, meanwhile, fell 1.5%, to $223,800, in the same period. realestate.msn.com |
