This month's recap of the region's largest home sales features a high-level international executive previously based in Switzerland, an ex-Idol contestant and a former Titans linebacker.

Two years into this little exercise in gawking at the rich and famous, we feel able to draw one conclusion from the monthly fluctuations this column has observed: They tell us a little, but not much, about the local economy and housing market. "Headline Homes" prices, like the stock market, bottomed out in late winter or early spring 2009 and have posted a general upward trend since then — punctuated by hiccups. January was, if nothing else, a hiccup.