Yes, that read weird to me, too, but it's because the 'lowering prices' are a snapshot, or recent trend (evidenced by the source being an index for April 2025 [1])
The 'sharpest rises' are from a long-term trend of a decade [2]:
> Over the past decade, the median home price has increased by 134 percent in Phoenix, 133 percent in Miami, 129 percent in Atlanta, and 99 percent in Dallas. (Over that same stretch, prices in New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles have increased by about 75 percent, 76 percent, and 97 percent, respectively).
Here's my pictorial illustration of the curve because I like drawing silly plots in txt
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2015.....2020.....2025
[2]https://www.theatlantic.com/economy/archive/2025/06/zoning-s...