According to the latest Federal Housing Finance Agency’s (FHFA) House Price Index (HPI), U.S. house prices were up 1.1% in December and up 10.8% from one year ago. The FHFA produces the nation’s only public, freely available house price indexes (HPIs) that measure changes in single-family house prices based on data that cover all 50 states and over 400 American cities and extend back to the mid-1970s. The FHFA’s HPIs are built on tens of millions of home sales and offer insights about home price fluctuations at the levels of the nation, census division, state, metro area, county, ZIP code, and census tract.
“House prices nationwide recorded the largest annual and quarterly increase in the history of the
FHFA HPI,” said Dr. Lynn Fisher, Deputy Director of FHFA’s Division of Research and Statistics.
“Low mortgage rates, pent up demand from homebuyers, and a limited housing supply propelled
every region of the country to experience faster growth in 2020 compared to a year ago despite the
pandemic...”
Click here to read the full report at FHFA.gov.
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