Market for single-family homes showing signs of life

"Actually, when you put the numbers under a microscope, single-family home prices -- on a price-per-square-foot basis -- seem to have stabilized since July 2009 after a long, dizzying descent. (The tax notice you got in the mail recently probably indicates otherwise, but it reflects activity from the first half of 2009, when prices were still in free-fall, and condo prices, which are still in decline)"