Quarterly increase in home prices slows to 2% in region.

Byline: Tom Shean

Dec. 2--The once-torrid rise in Hampton Roads' home prices slowed during the July-through-September quarter but remained stronger than the slackening price appreciation in most parts of the country, a government agency reported. The region's housing prices rose slightly more than 2 percent from what they were last spring, while prices nationwide edged up only 0.86 percent, the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight said in its latest quarterly survey. "With U.S. housing prices growing less than one percent during the third quarter, it provides more evidence that the long-forecasted national deceleration in house prices is occurring,"…