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Data through December 2013, released by S&P Dow Jones Indices for its S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, showed that National home prices closed the year of 2013 up 11.3 percent.

Homes.com, an online real estate destination and a division of Dominion Enterprises, has released its December Local Market Index, a price performance summary of repeat sales of U.S. properties. Utilizing home pricing data, the Index shows year-over-year gains for single-family properties in all 300 top U.S. markets.

Green homes comprised 23% of the overall residential construction market in 2013 and are expected to grow to between 26% and 33% of the market by 2016.

GuildQuality recently conducted a national survey of homeowners who purchased a National Green Building Standard (NGBS) certified green home built within the past three years.

Sales of newly built, single-family homes fell 7 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 414,000 units in December, according to newly released figures from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Census Bureau.

National home values completed 2013 on a high note, ending the fourth quarter up 6.4 percent year-over-year, a robust bounce off the bottom that is beginning to tail off in most areas and could cause problems in a handful.