RISMEDIA, October 31, 2013 — Would - be San Francisco Bay Area homebuyers spooked by fast - rising home prices, a
brief uptick in mortgage interest rates and potential fallout from the
federal government shutdown took a break from their home search in the third quarter of 2013, spurring a slowdown in home sales that, for the first time in recent memory, was accompanied by a decline in median home prices, according to an analysis of MLS data by the research division of Better Homes and Gardens Mason - McDuffie Real Estate.