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Awesome stuff, George. I dig your charts and can't get enough of them. Too bad this service did not also provide the data for the number of units sold and the active inventory (unsold units) in those counties. I incessantly track the real estate prices/activity of many zip codes in the Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties with the (seemingly foolish) hope of one day buying a shack with a bit of earth surrounding it. One thing is for certain is that there is much hot air remaining in the real estate bubble. How and when it escapes remains to be seen as the government's costly patchwork will at some point give way to natural forces. I just hope I will have the required fortitude to acquire a mortgage for an asset that just a few years ago soared to previously unseen heights. On a final note that I find maddening, when did we stop wanting to own a home and start wanting to buy a house? We used to be content with almost anything with four walls and a roof as one just needs to look at all of the Bay Area's ticky tacky subdivisions. Like I said earlier, all I would like is a shack with some dirt.