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Housing prices up

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Joe Copeland

Seattle area home prices are up 10.6 percent over a year ago, according to a March check of real estate in 20 major cities. All the cities saw gains, and Seattle's were the biggest here in seven years, according to The New York Times. Seattle's growth was just below the national average, which rose by 10.9 percent according to Standard & Poor’s Case-Shiller index.

Joe Copeland

By Joe Copeland

Joe Copeland is the former senior editor for Crosscut, where he has been an editor since 2010. Before that, he was an editorial writer and columnist for the Seattle P-I and editorial page edi