"...flatlined prices are starting to edge back up."

What's "flatlined" mean, exactly, richmond?  Last I heard home prices had been declining slightly over the past eight months or so.   

If they are "edging back up," howcum?  It's doesn't look like it's the crush of "foreign buyers"--these numbers, too, have been declining since the beginning of the year.  Jan: 13% less than December's peak.  February: 13% less than January's.  Should be getting March's figure any time now.  

"Proxy buyers" might be finding their way around tax, but a lot of them can't find a way to take their cash out of China quite so easily, it seems.  THAT is the reason why foreign buyers and the influx of foreign money has been declining.