Sacramento Bee Publishes Corrections

I mentioned earlier a couple of errors that appeared in the Sacramento Bee's March housing article. This month I noticed an error in the April article. The story said:

Median sales prices, too, posted their third straight monthly gains in all but Yolo County.

This is incorrect. The median price in Sacramento, Placer, and El Dorado counties increased from the prior month in February and March, but not January. That is two straight months, not three.

Today, the Sacramento Bee published these corrections:

An April 21 story on Business Page D1 about March regional home sales and prices incorrectly stated the number of months in a row that median prices rose in Sacramento, Placer and El Dorado counties. Prices rose two months in a row. A March 17 story about February sales and prices on Business Page D1 also incorrectly noted a "continued upward momentum" for median prices in Sacramento, Yolo, Placer and El Dorado counties since October and November. Prices in all four counties fell at least once after those months. The story also should have said that February's regional sales fell by 30 percent over the same month a year earlier.

I really hope I don't have to play the role of the nag again in May.