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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: KM who wrote (48570)	2/15/2006 9:35:35 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

Numerous U.S. Areas See Home Price Gains AP - 1 hour, 46 minutes ago WASHINGTON - The sizzling housing market may have cooled at the end of 2005, but still-surging home prices did not reflect it, according to a report Wednesday from a real estate trade group. The National Association of Realtors said a record 72 metropolitan areas had double-digit gains in sales prices for existing homes in the final three months of 2005 when compared with the same period a year earlier. Overall, some 145 metropolitan areas that were surveyed.