Top 10 Turnaround Housing Markets in 2012

By Mamta Badkar

The U.S. housing market turned the corner in 2012. The latest home price report from Trulia says home prices were up 5.1 percent year-over-year nationally. And the pace of increases also picked up in 2012. With home prices up 0.8 percent quarter-over-quarter in the first quarter, and up 2.3 percent in the last.

We drew on Trulia's latest report to highlight the top "turnaround markets" of 2012 -- the markets with the biggest increase in home prices between December 2011 and December 2012.

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