Commentary U.S. home prices continued to climb in March and have risen nearly 15 percent since the beginning of 2020. That is the takeaway of a U.S. housing market analysis by Standard & Poors, in conjunction with CoreLogic. The study was completed using a method advocated by Nobel-laureate Robert Schiller, which uses actual home price transactions compared to the property’s previous sale price. Home prices in many western cities are climbing much faster than home prices nationally. In Seattle, prices are up 24 percent since the beginning of 2020; In Phoenix, they were up 22.5 percent during that same period. Within California, home prices during that 15 month period were up 21.8 percent in San Diego, 15.5 percent in San Francisco and 15.2 percent in Los Angeles. The Epoch Times analysis of the Standard & Poors CoreLogic data analyzed home prices from Jan. 1, 2020 to March 31, 2021 to …