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One of the biggest questions people are asking right now is: what’s happening with home prices? There are headlines about ongoing price appreciation, but at the same time, some sellers are reducing the price of their homes. That can feel confusing and makes it more difficult to get a clear picture. Part of the challenge is that it can be hard to understand what experts are saying when the words they use sound similar. Let’s break down the differences among those terms to help clarify what’s actually happening today. Appreciation is when home prices increase. Depreciation is when home prices decrease. Deceleration is when home prices continue to appreciate, but at a slower or more moderate pace. Experts agree that, nationally, what we’re seeing today is deceleration. That means home prices are appreciating, just not at the record-breaking pace they have over the past year. In 2021, data from CoreLogic tells us home prices appreciated by an average of 15% nationwide. And earlier this year, that appreciation was upward of 20%. This year, experts forecast home prices will appreciate at a decelerated pace of around 10 to 11%, on average. The graph below uses the latest data from CoreLogic to help tell the story of how home prices are decelerating, but not depreciating so far this year. |
As the green bars show, home prices appreciated between 19-20% year-over-year from January to March. But over the last few months, the pace of that appreciation has decelerated to 18%. This means price growth is still climbing compared to last year but at a slower rate. As the Monthly Mortgage Monitor from Black Knight explains: “Annual home price growth dropped by nearly two percentage points . . . – the greatest single-month slowdown on record since at least the early 1970s. . . While June’s slowdown was record-breaking, home price growth would need to decelerate at this pace for six more months to drive annual appreciation back to 5%, a rate more in line with long-run averages.” Basically, this means, while moderating, home prices are still far above the norm, and we’d have to see a lot more deceleration to even fall in line with more typical rates of home price growth. That’s still not home price depreciation. The big takeaway is home prices haven’t fallen or depreciated nationwide, they’re just decelerating or moderating. While some unique and overheated markets may see declines, nationally, home prices are forecast to appreciate. Locally we continue to fall back in line where things were prior to 2020. |
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The number of homes on the market in the Des Moines metro area rose 22.8% over this time last year, reported the Des Moines Area Association of REALTORS® (DMAAR). 2,669 properties were on the market in August compared to 2,596 properties in July. In August of 2021, there were 2,173 properties on the market. Home sales dropped in August by 12.4% compared to August of last year. 1,470 residential properties sold in August 2022 while 1,678 homes sold in August of 2021. The median sale price rose by 5.2% when compared to August of 2021. $268,250 was the median sale price in August 2022. The average days on market calculated to 24 days. |
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September 21, 2022
What’s actually going on with home prices?
