The price gains are not the only reason to give thought to selling.

The total return on government securities - the price gain or loss and interest paid - was down 1.59 percent.

The group has had three periods when its price gains exceeded 100 percent, he said.

Health care was the only other sector in which many districts reported large price gains.

Most of the payoff has come from price gains, to $60 yesterday.

At the other end of the list are the 10 states with the smallest home price gains from 2000 to 2005.

But industry analysts do not believe that the production cuts are deep enough for the price gains to last.

So the current price gains were far less than those in the 1980's, the report found.

In terms of price gains from a year earlier, the market has been cooling for a while.

It was the biggest price gain in more than a week.