How have home prices fared during the last administration? Here are the Top 10 cities (and the only cities) with an increase in their Case-Shiller Index between January, 2009, and August, 2012:
| City/Area | % chg in CSI since 1/2009 |
| San Francisco | |
| Washington D.C. | |
| Denver | |
| Dallas | |
| San Diego | |
| Boston | |
| Los Angeles | |
| Minneapolis | |
| Detroit | |
| Phoenix |
With all the hub-bub about the 20% increase in the Phoenix median price this year, they must be coming from a long way back….or tracking the median price isn’t as accurate as the C-S Index?
Or could it be that because the Case-Shiller Index excludes repeat sales within six months (flips), it is missing some of the big pops of appreciation that flippers are enjoying these days?
