51.   Housing prices have reformed welfare right out of most of the Peninsula.

52.   Housing prices plummeted as executives left to find work elsewhere.

53.   Housing prices and interest rates had collapsed by then, and even if they are still declining, she thinks they will come back one day.

54.   Housing prices fell sharply after the options lost value, and have only recently begun to recover.

55.   Housing prices have been increasing faster than general inflation for several years, and they accelerated in recent months to their fastest real rate of gain in decades.

56.   Housing prices have jumped higher in a year than almost anywhere else in California.

57.   Housing prices in Singapore may be poised for their first fall in a decade as a flood of new units come on the market.

58.   Housing prices, still low by big-city standards, are rising fast.

59.   However, the growth in San Francisco has resulted in more traffic congestion and skyrocketing housing prices.

60.   If housing prices fall, people might spend less on other goods, and that could cascade into an economic downturn.