with me is real estate attorney, steven meister. thanks very much for joining us.the dreaded question, have we hit bottom yet? >> i don't think we're quite ready to say that. i think we're limping along at a bottom but the numbers are not nearly as strong as you think. the nearly 10% increase in the median price you were referring to i think that's --. sandra: it looks good. >> i think that is more an adjustment to the mix of distressed and nondistressed sales. sandra: you will have to make that simple for me. >> when you have distressed sales from banks. sandra: foreclosures. >> foreclosures and short sales. those are low-priced. people aren't in distress and not in foreclosure sell they get a higher price. the mix of those go changes over time. i think you're getting less distressed sales. so the price appears to be going up but it is not really going up. sandra: that is a little bit scary. do you think we're actually still getting worse? >> well it is hard to say. it is not a commodity like, an ounce of gold. so it is hard to say. i will say that the foreclosure