So you want to move to Fairview, TN, but aren’t sure if you can afford the housing costs? In the first month of 2017 in Washington, we encountered two large economic benchmarks in the economy — record-setting stock levels and a local housing market that produced median home prices that reached record levels set in 2007 during the boom prior to the Great Recession.
For example, the forecast for Redding, CA is for home values to increase by 10.7 percent from November 2012 to November 2013. I have lots to blog about, but because I’m short of time, I’ll just post this list of moral values. While housing prices have increased in major metropolitan areas across America, the greatest percentage growth in home prices since 1998 has been in California, specifically in Los Angeles and the Bay Area.
Then find the cost per square foot average in your area and increase your home’s value by that much. The number of transactions in a geographic area affects how much we know about prevailing market values of homes in that area. With U.S. home values having fallen by more than 20{6ea1d85b87534fab6e24031f499cc2ede23940dcd11dcec5d1566c72a09a2c6a} nationally from their peak in 2007 until their trough in late 2011, many homeowners are now underwater on their mortgages, meaning they owe more than their home is worth.
In Los Angeles County, the median jumped 7.4{6ea1d85b87534fab6e24031f499cc2ede23940dcd11dcec5d1566c72a09a2c6a} to $525,000; in Orange, 9{6ea1d85b87534fab6e24031f499cc2ede23940dcd11dcec5d1566c72a09a2c6a} to $655,000; in Ventura, 7{6ea1d85b87534fab6e24031f499cc2ede23940dcd11dcec5d1566c72a09a2c6a} to $535,000; in San Bernardino, 9.6{6ea1d85b87534fab6e24031f499cc2ede23940dcd11dcec5d1566c72a09a2c6a} to $285,000; in Riverside, 8.1{6ea1d85b87534fab6e24031f499cc2ede23940dcd11dcec5d1566c72a09a2c6a} to $335,000; and in San Diego,11.1{6ea1d85b87534fab6e24031f499cc2ede23940dcd11dcec5d1566c72a09a2c6a} to $507,500. It is, but it’s critical because it allows you to see how a home (or an area) has changed in value over the years.
From 2014-2015, when values have been more stable, the median forecast error is just 2.8 percent. The answer to whether it’s better to buy a home that is smaller at a higher per square foot or a larger home at a smaller per square foot cost depends on the typical average square footage of homes in that area.