6 real estate headlines: 01-April

A daily dose of headlines for real estate agents, mortgage lenders, homebuyers and home sellers.

Region's home prices bucking nation's double dip Washington Examiner: Washington has posted monthly price increases in eight of the past 10 months, according to Case-Shiller.	Getting in on the ground floor in Southwest DC Urban Turf: In a city where real estate watchers are always speculating about the next hot neighborhood, it is curious that DC's Southwest quadrant gets so little attention.
Want a vacation home? Prices are falling CNN Money: The median price of a vacation home was $150,000 in 2010, down 11.2% from a year earlier, the National Association of Realtors reports.	Foreclosure aid fell short and is fading The New York Times: Saying it is a waste of money, the Republican-controlled House voted on Tuesday night to kill the foreclosure relief program.
Why is it so hard to get approved for HARP refinance? HSH: Decoded, this means that HARP refinance applications with LTVs exceeding 105 percent are treated differently by the software and are less likely to be approved.	CityCenter DC site under construction DC Mud: The project's plan for nearly 700 units of housing, 185,000 s.f. of retail, 520,000 s.f. of office space has developers holding firm for nearly a year that this spring will mark the project's birth.

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