Home prices in February posted their first annual increase since the end of 2006, lifted by temporary tax credits for homebuyers.

The Standard & Poor’s/ Case- Shiller home price index eked out a gain of 0.6 percent, but that was half the increase analysts had expected.  On a more cautionary note, 11 of the 20 cities tracked by the index showed declines from February last year.

Round Rock, Austin saw big gains in population in 2009 according to Census