Home Price Index

Downtown. It’s everywhere you want to be. 

Tuesday’s Personal Journal in the WSJ takes a long look at where housing prices are holding up best — not surprisingly, it’s key downtown metros in some of the nation’s larger cities. From the story: Much has been made of the way the nation’s real-estate bust is affecting some American cities far more than others. But even within a single metro area, changes in housing prices can show wild variations.