San Francisco (+4.8%): The metropolitan area fared better than most of the nation, seeing nearly a 5 percent home price increase in December compared to the same month in 2008. But local prices stayed essentially flat between October and December 2009, meaning that price momentum generated during 2009 began to stall in the year's later months.
Dallas (+3.0%): Dallas-area home prices moved solidly higher in the latest measure of the country's housing market. Dallas' December home prices increased by 3 percent from a year earlier in the monthly Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller Home Price Index.
San Diego (+2.7%): San Diego fared very well in the most recent Case-Shiller home price index report released this morning. It was one of only four metropolitan areas, out of the 20 that are followed in the index, to report an increase in prices for the month of December as well as all of 2009, with prices here rising 2.7 percent.
Washington (+1.9%): Of all 20 cities tracked by the S&P/Case-Shiller index, the nation's capital has the distinction of seeing the highest appreciation since 2000. Sure, the recession has cut prices by nearly a third since the peak of the housing boom. But prices in 2009 actually increased 1.9 percent. And if you had bought a home in 2000, it would be worth nearly 80 percent more today -- an appreciation that's better than New York or Los Angeles. Saul Loeb/AFP/Newscom/File
Denver (+1.2%): Denver was one of just six cities that showed a year-over-year increase in prices. Denver-area home prices rose 1.2 percent between December 2009 and the same month of 2008. That followed a 0.5 percent year-over-year increase in November.
Boston (+0.5%): The metro area is one of the few tracked by the Case-Shiller index that has seen relatively little fallout from the housing bust. Prices are down just 14 percent from the peak. And for 2009, prices climbed just a hair -- 0.5 percent -- making Boston one of only six cities to see home values rise in 2009. Sarah Beth Glicksteen/Staff/File
Los Angeles (+0.0%): Los Angeles gained 1% in December, compared with a month earlier, more than any of the other 20 cities in the index. Prices there were flat year-over-year. -- CNNMoney.com
Cleveland (-1.2%): The Cleveland area held up slightly better last year, with its index posting a decline of only 1.2 percent from December 2008 to December 2009. Seven cities outranked Cleveland, and San Francisco topped the 20-city list with a 4.8 percent annual increase in its price index. The worst-performing city was Las Vegas, with an annual decline of 20.6 percent.
Minneapolis (-2.3%): Twin Cities home prices declined slightly in December versus the previous month, but still showed signs of being more recovered than they were earlier in the year. Prices were 2.3 percent less than December 2008 levels, but even that decline is an improvement over earlier in the year, when year-over-year losses involved double-digit percentages.
Charlotte, N.C. (-3.8%): Charlotte-area home prices ended last year at a new low for this downturn but with a smaller decline than the previous year, based on a closely watched index released today.
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