metropolitan
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“More than half of major U.S. metropolitan markets posted year-over-year price declines in February, signaling that the housing slowdown has broadened well beyond its Sun Belt origins,” said Nicholas Godec at S&P Dow Jones Indices.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026
Home prices in 20 major metropolitan areas rose 0.9% year-over-year in February, a slowdown from January’s 1.2% gain.
From Barron's • Apr. 25, 2026
The program is also underway in the metropolitan areas of Phoenix; Austin, Texas; and Atlanta.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026
The fastest-growing metropolitan areas in the U.S. last year came with a very big attraction: a lot of homes for sale.
From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026
In 1945, for instance, AT&T began introducing a kind-of mobile phone service, derived from military radio technology, in a few metropolitan markets in the United States.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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