Where Hot Vacation Homes Are

What towns are the hottest for vacation homes? Depends on what newspaper or Web site you read. Today's Wall Street Journal lists Oceanside, CA, Morrow Bay, CA and Brigantine, NJ as the three towns with the biggest five-year gains in housing prices through the fourth quarter of 2004. Yet EscapeHomes, the oft-quoted Web leader on such matters, has no homes listed for either Morro Bay or Brigantine, and only two in Oceanside. So what gives?