Home prices continued to rise last year, but they're slowing down from their post-recession pace.

That trend, plus rising interest rates, is leading some lenders to believe this year will show only modest gains in purchase mortgage originations.

Prices rose in 2017 in all but five of the 112 metro areas examined by ATTOM Data Solutions in a housing report released by the Los Angeles company Feb. 1, but in 77 cities the 2017 increase was smaller than the average yearly increase from 2012 to 2016.

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