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the fastest year over year spike in home price is since 2006. we remember 2006 the peak of the bule overall. look where the biggest home prices increases are, wolf in some parts of the country, up double digits. look at san francisco, up almost 19% year over year. las vegas, up more than 17%. phoenix, home prices, wolf, from february last year to february this year, up 23%. detroit, up 15%. atlanta, up about 16%. the slowest price increase, new york city, wolf, up about 1.9%. it didn't see the big run-up, didn't see the big crash, it's not seeing the big recovery there. >> good point...

0 this is a special "cnn newsroom." i'm wolf blitzer in washington. some real signs of progress in housing market today. figures released for february show home prices rose faster, get this, faster than anytime since 2006. christine romans joining us from new york right now. christine, the report says home prices climbed, what, 9.3% from the same time last year? that's very impressive. what's driving the increase? >> well, very low interest rates, cash buyers, wolf from all over the world, quite frankly. there's not a lot of inventory in some places. if you want to buy a house, you have to pay...