County leads region in home-price gains
By Roger Showley, UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 at 12:02 a.m.
San Diego County, with a 10 percent increase, led Southern California in home
price improvement last month, although Los Angeles had the highest sales growth on a year-over-year basis, MDA DataQuick reported yesterday. Overall, the six-county region had a 4 percent increase in median price, rising from $278,000 in December 2008 to $289,000 last month. It was
the first year-over-year improvement since summer 2007. The one exception was the Inland Empire, where prices in Riverside and San Bernardino counties were lower in December than a year earlier.