The always efficient number cruncher company DataQuick is out with its August sales figures for Southern California and is reporting that the median home price fell 34 percent last month from a year ago, so we're basically where we were in 2003, according to the Los Angeles Times (except the stock market wasn't plummeting back in 2003).Closer to home in Los Angeles County, the median sales price was $380,000, down a little over 30 percent from a year ago. Also: Foreclosures helped drive up those August sales numbers. [LA Times]
