i wrote recently about if it’s good time to buy or not…as i stated, i always tell friends and clients it depends on what is going on in your financial house…here’s some good news across the board for everyone…case shiller just came out with the fact that nationwide, home prices rose 1.7% and better news here in the bay area, san francisco rose 7.8%, the highest percentage reporting in of the 20 metro areas…this is good news for buyers since it paints a clearer picture that we have started to see stabalization in the market place; good news for the sellers, for obvious reasons; and overall good news for the economy…we can’t get out of this economic mess without stabalizing the housing market and getting the unemployment numbers down…i think we’re on our way! this is great since i have a house for sale in berkeley!!  here’s the article from standard and poor…case-shiller report