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Article: Nation's hottest housing market; Minneapolis-St. Paul area home prices rose 3.2 percent in August.It's the fourth straight month of improvement and second month in a row the Cities came out on top. But there's still a long way to go, market observers warn: Median home prices are still 13.7 percent below August 2008 levels.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- October 28, 2009
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Byline: KARA McGUIRE; STAFF WRITER
The Twin Cities area was one of the nation's warmer housing markets this summer as home prices rose faster here than in other metro areas, according to a closely watched housing index released Tuesday.
But market observers still warn that economic uncertainty could cause prices to start sinking again in a "double dip" scenario.
Minneapolis-St. Paul area home prices rose 3.2 percent from July to August, according to the Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller national home price index, compared with a 1.2 percent average increase for the 20 cities tracked by the index. Only Cleveland failed to show an improvement in ...