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January 19, 2012

With very high vacancy rates resulting from the housing bubble, shelter prices had grown slowly and even fell.  Thus, core prices excluding shelter had grown faster than core prices in general.  More recently, a slightly faster rate of growth in rent prices and a slower rate of growth outside of rent have brought the two more in line.

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For more, check out the latest Prices Byte.