I don’t like this anymore than you do.

But here goes: Despite our first positive report on housing prices in forever, the slide isn’t over.

When the latest Case-Shiller Index revealed that prices of metro Atlanta homes increased from May to June — ending our two-year slide into oblivion — a collective sigh was heard from Buford to Jonesboro.

This from folks who two years ago couldn’t have told you whether Case-Shiller was a housing index or a brand of office furniture.

Now, the housing index is followed as closely as the Dow.

And what we hope the index is saying is that we have hit bottom.

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