Increase?

I’ve been looking at housing advertisements in the New York Times for a while, but have only recently seen increases in asking prices.  This seems to mirror the rally and positive sentiment of the stock market recently.  A little bit dissapointed!  On a side note, I want to attempt to give a mostly real-time account of my stock market gains and losses.  I am unsure of how to go about this but it will be a fun programming project if I can figure it out.