On a day where 2 billion people are engrossed with the kisses of  two British 20-somethings, let’s shine the spotlight on San Diego’s own King of Graphs, Rich Toscano.

Here’s an excerpt and two of the graphs from his post, click here ^[1] for the full story:

It is interesting, however, that the low-priced tier of the index dropped as much as it did.  After weathering the recent fall/winter lull better than the other tiers, the low-priced homes were spanked for 2.7 percent in February.  The middle tier was down 1.4 percent and the high tier by .5 percent for the month.

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This looks like somewhat of a catch-up move which reverses the low tier’s previous strength and gets it more into line with recent price changes in the overall market.

The San Diego Case-Shiller Index since 1989:

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