--Average prices in the Baltimore metro area rose 2.3 percent to about $316,900. That's very close to the preliminary figure.

--Sales fell almost 18 percent, also a minor change.

--Median price (impossible to calculate from the monthly reports) was $273,000, up almost 2 percent.

--Reported average days on market rose from 60 to 92.

--Average sellers got 94 percent of their list price, vs. not quite 96 percent a year earlier.

At a more local level ...

--All jurisdictions in the Baltimore area managed a gain in average price besides Anne Arundel, down half a percent. Baltimore's 6 percent increase was the biggest.

--Baltimore also saw the largest drop in sales, just over 20 percent. The smallest was Howard's at almost 15 percent.

Wait a minute, you say: Isn't there a story in the paper today that says prices in the Baltimore metro area fell? Yes indeed. But that's in the last three months of 2007, which was worse from a seller's point of view than earlier in the year.