Portland Home Values: Case-Shiller May Numbers

Once again, I am farming this out entirely to the Wall Street Journal.  Portland's home values increased slightly from April and from the previous year, but what little improvement there was most likely is representative of the federal incentive programs.  Portland is, and always has been, unexceptional - middling in terms of increases and decreases in home values. Here is the WSJs chart:

Home Prices, by Metro Area

Metro Area	May 2010	Change from April	Year-over-year change
Atlanta	107.82	2.0%	1.7%
Boston	155.95	1.6%	4.8%
Charlotte	116.39	0.3%	-2.8%
Chicago	121.9	1.2%	-1.5%
Cleveland	105.85	1.0%	3.7%
Dallas	119.93	1.5%	2.9%
Denver	128.24	0.6%	3.6%
Detroit	68.29	0.7%	-2.5%
Las Vegas	102.35	-0.5%	-6.5%
Los Angeles	174.67	1.7%	9.7%
Miami	146.33	0.9%	1.2%
Minneapolis	122.63	2.8%	11.6%
New York	170.45	0.8%	-0.4%
Phoenix	111	0.9%	7.2%
Portland	147.98	1.2%	0.7%
San Diego	163.11	1.1%	12.4%
San Francisco	142.16	1.7%	18.3%
Seattle	146.82	1.2%	-1.4%
Tampa	138.29	0.9%	-1.5%
Washington	182.1	1.5%	7.4%

Source: Standard & Poor’s and FiservData