Southern California has 2 of largest US home-price gains

Home-price gains in San Diego and Los Angeles and Orange counties were among the four biggest surges among 20 cities tracked by the venerable Case-Shiller indexes.
By this math,  New York prices were up 9% in a year as of June, then came San Diego’s 8.7% gain, Las Vegas at 8.5% and LA-OC at 8.2%. Case-Shiller tracks a three-month periods and in this latest timeframe of homebuying the 30-year borrowing costs largely hovered around 7%.
All 20 cities had gain including: Chicago and