susan walkter, this is a very surprisingly strong report, and 15 or so of the metropolitan areas showed monthly price gains. there are seasonally adjusted data here. what do you make of it? >> i think it's good news. look, we're not off to the races, but this is a turn. of course we can go down next month, of course unemployment can go up. but this is signs of a bottom for me. >> yeah, howard, looking back at the numbers, so month over month, prices are up 1.4%, i went back and looked at june versus may for '08. it was down half a percentage point, not up. if you look at june versus may for '07, that was also down. so kind of no matter how you turn this cube, i know year over year, prices have obviously declined a lot. but it's up this month, and it isn't usually up in this month. that's a positive. >> we're gaining ground. and that's with more sales. that's good news. and this is june. and now we've had two more months of good, solid overall growth. so two months from now, we should see even better prices. >> you know, howard, when you look at some of the states here, this is not from