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Show Page 30—THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, Wednesday, August 26, 1981 San Francisco Most Expensive Housing Market in the Nation ments of $1 048, an increase ot 72.1 percent over 1978 The average price of a home in Houston was $9000 with monthly payments of $974, an increase of 105.3 percent over 1978 In New York the averageprice of a home was $93,600 with monthly paymentsof $976 an increaseof 9.9 percent Minneapolis reported $82,300 as the averageprice of a home with an $830 monthly payment an increase of 81.9 percent. Houses in Milwaukee cost an average $78. 200 with $818 monthly CHICAGO (UPI) The average cost of buying a home in San Francisco is $133,900 — higher than in any other major U.S. city the National Association of Realtors reports, Louis Dombrowski, director of ublic information said today housia costs in the San Francisco area soared 106.3 percent between 1978 and 1981 because of limited construction and increasing demand. The realtors’ group compared housing costs in 15 major metropolitan areas. While San Franciscowasthe most expensive Pittsburgh — where the averageprice of a homeis $59.00 — was ranked the most reasonable. “San Francisco is a desirable location,"’ Dombrowski said. “The citizens in the area have decided on limited growth policies. Limiting supply and maintaining demand — prices have to go higher."’ In San Francisco, the average monthly payment for principal and interest was $1,403. Dombrowskisaid prices in Pittsburgh remained relatively stable during the period. possibly because residents made no effort to limit growth. Los Angeles was the second most expensive, followed by Washington. Houston, New York, Minneapolis. Milwaukee, Chicago. Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston. Philadelphia, Detroit and St. Louis. In Los Angeles. where homessold for an average $120,100, the average payments an increase of 99.3 per- cent over 1978. Chicago homes averaged $77,200. with $812 month payments, an increaseof 69.9 percent over 1978. In Atlanta, houses cost an average of $75,900, with monthly paymentsof $767, an 88 percent increase over 1978, The average price of a homein Baltimore was $7200 with an average monthly payment of$716, a 74.8 percent increase. Homes in Boston cost an average $71,200, with $716 monthly payments, a 70.5 percent increase over 1978, Philadelphia reported homesselling for an average $64.000. with $673 monthly payments, an increase of 79.6 percent In Detroit, the averageprice of a home was $59,700, with a $625 monthly payment, an increase of 62.2 percent over 1978. Homesin St. Louis sold for an average $59,400, with monthly payments of $605, an increase of 85.2 percent. payment per month was $1,234, an increaseof 78.6 percentover1978. Homesin the Washington, D.C., area sold for an average $100,900 in 1981, with average monthly pay- Oh, You Beautiful, Kid! Two hundred pound Thor, a male African elephant born Aug. 22 at the San Diego Animal Park receives a bottle of his mother's milk from keepers Gary Miller,left, and Steve Friedland. Special Hull Paint Saves on FuelBill SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) — Marine shipping companies say a patented paint is saving them millions of dollars in fuel costs. The paint, called Intersmooth SPC, goes on the hulls of ships. It does, the shippers say, what paints before have not in protecting the hulls from ‘'biological fouling,’ when organisms attach themselves onto the hulls. causing ships to drag through the water andlosefuelefficiency. Commercial shippers, who run 700-foot vessels around the oceans. report savings of as muchas 342 pecentof their total fuelbills. Satisfied West Coast shipping outfits include Chevron Shipping. American President Lines and Princess Cruises, which has the paint adorning the underside of the sister ship to television's ‘‘Love Boat.” The largest consumer of Intesmooth SPCis the West Coast-based MatsonShipping Lines, which is using the paint on three 700-foot vessels. The ships make cargo runs from San Francisco Bay and Los ae to Hawaii, and anoffical with thé outfit said Matsonis realizing morethan $1 millioh in fuel savings a year. more than 3 percentof Matson’s fuel costs. “We're sold on it, and weintendto paintall our ships with it,’’ said Jim Sweeney, Matson's managerof shipyard energy conservation. Intersmooth is a selfpolishing paint, which meansthat once applied to a ship's hullit chemically dissolves itself. or polishes itself away, so that barnacles and other growths cannotcling to the hull. The paint also contains biocides (organismkillers). Fresh biocides are brought continually to the surface of the hull by the self-polishing process. 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