For the whole year, prices were up 5.7% to $486,000, and sales fell 19.4%. In 2005, the median price rose 16.5% from the year before. Sales slipped 0.4%.
"If you take last year's data and put it anywhere else, you would have said it was a banner year," said Patrick Lashinsky, executive vice president of ZipRealty Inc., an Emeryville-based online brokerage that operates in Southern California. "The only reason it doesn't look as strong is because we're coming off these irrationally exuberant years."
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