According to the Wall Street Journal the median house price dropped 14% in the first quater of 2009 according to NAR.  Nar has stated that in the first quater of 2009 half of the homes that were sold were sold to first-time homebuyers, and many of them bought foreclosed homes and that is what dropped home prices.  There were some areas of the country that showed an increase in the country, like the Cumberland area of Maryland and West Virgina, the median price jumped 21%.