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Home Prices Continued to Rise in August

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San Diego 0.9% 0.6% 1.1% 0.1%

San Francisco 0.5% 0.0% 1.9% 0.8%

Seattle -0.1% -0.1% 1.4% 0.8%

Tampa 0.4% 0.3% 1.0% 0.1%

Washington 1.1% 0.5% 1.4% 0.3%

Composite-10 0.9% 0.4% 1.5% 0.3%

Composite-20 0.9% 0.5% 1.6% 0.3%

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Source: S&P Dow Jones Indices and Fiserv

Data through August 2012

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S&P Dow Jones Indices has introduced a new blog called HousingViews.com. This interactive blog delivers real-time commentary and analysis from across the Standard & Poor's organization on a wide-range of topics impacting residential home prices, homebuilding and mortgage financing in the United States. Readers and viewers can visit the blog at www.housingviews.com, where feedback and commentary is certainly welcomed and encouraged.

The S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices are published on the last Tuesday of each month at 9:00 am ET. They are constructed to accurately track the price path of typical single-family homes located in each metropolitan area provided. Each index combines matched price pairs for thousands of individual houses from the available universe of arms-length sales data. The S&P/Case-Shiller

National U.S. Home Price Index tracks the value of single-family housing within the United States. The index is a composite of single-family home price indices for the nine U.S. Census divisions and is calculated quarterly. The S&P/Case-Shiller Composite of 10 Home Price Index is a value-weighted average of the 10 original metro area indices. The S&P/Case-Shiller Composite of 20 Home Price Index is a value-weighted average of the 20 metro area indices. The indices have a base value of 100 in January 2000; thus, for example, a current index value of 150 translates to a 50% appreciation rate since January 2000 for a typical home located within the subject market.

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