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Top 5 U.S. Cities Where Home Values are On the Rise — and Where They’re Trending Down

house prices“Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

 

In our endless quest to find a perfect place to rest our heads at the end of the day, to raise our hopes, dreams, and families, the search for the ideal house to make a home can lead us in all sorts of directions — both physically and emotionally. How do we choose where to begin looking to move? Are some cities doing better than others in our part of the country? What’s going on with the national housing market?

 

What you consider “ideal” could vary greatly from one season of life to the next, yet might also be somewhat dependent on what’s affordable. According to Zillow Research, the housing market remains tight, with fewer available homes for sale this year than last. And the average home value in the United States is at a record-high sales price of $351,423, or 1.3% higher than it was last year.

 

Fortunately, some generally good news shows that more sellers are cutting prices and that the pace of sales has slowed slightly — which generally means less competition and more time for home buyers to seek and find their next house. One other finding is that the number of newly listed homes went up slightly from July to August, an increase of 4.0 percent.

 

Which U.S. cities tended to have the most notable changes?

 

The metro areas with the biggest monthly increases were:

 

  • Hartford, Ct.
  • Buffalo, N.Y.
  • San Diego, Calif.
  • Cleveland, Ohio
  • Providence, R.I.

 

The metro areas with the biggest monthly decrease were as follows:

 

  • New Orleans, La.
  • Austin, Texas
  • San Antonio, Texas
  • Denver, Colo.
  • Dallas, Texas

 

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