News:  Tri-Cities Ranks No 1 In Nation for Housing

Mar 10, 2010

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By John Trumbo, Herald staff writer
 
A new report on Smartmoney.com lists the Tri-Cities as one of the nation's five brightest spots in an otherwise drab economic landscape.

The online publication's report says the region's four cities will be No. 1 among the five best communities in the nation that will see increases in 2010 fourth-quarter home prices.

The report lumps together Kennewick, Pasco, Richland and West Richland and predicts just under a 4 percent increase in home prices over the same period of 2009, according to Tuesday's website posting on the Wall Street Journal's digital page.

Nationally, average home prices for the fourth quarter of 2010 are expected to fall more than 8 percent, compared with a year earlier, Smartmoney.com noted.

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