Home Prices

Veros Real Estate Solutions (Veros®) released its Q1 2025 VeroFORECASTSM. The forecast projects an average nationwide home price appreciation rate of 2.4% over the next 12 months. This is a modest decline from the previous quarter’s forecast of 2.7%.

ATTOM released its Q1 2025 Single-Family Rental Market report, which ranks the best U.S. markets for buying single-family rental properties in 2025. The report analyzed single-family rental returns in 361 U.S. counties with sufficient rental and home-price data. The analysis for this report incorporated median rents and median home prices collected from ATTOM’s nationwide property database, as well as publicly recorded sales deed data licensed by ATTOM. Here’s what it found:

ATTOM released its first-quarter 2025 U.S. Home Affordability Report showing that median-priced single-family homes and condos remain less affordable in the first quarter of 2025 compared to historical averages in 97 percent of counties around the nation with enough data to analyze.

ATTOM released its Year-End 2024 U.S. Home Sales Report, which shows that home sellers made a $122,500 profit on typical sales nationwide in 2024, generating a 53.8 percent return on investment.

Corporate Settlement Solutions (CSS), a full-suite provider of commercial and residential real estate settlement solutions, released results from its half-year Appraisal Price-Gap Analysis which provides the percent of homes that appraised over or under the sale price or appraised at the sale price (within $2,500.00).

Home prices continued to cool in September as homebuyers struggled with inflation fatigue. Inflation has affected both goods and other services as well as housing prices, which are now 51% higher than at the start of the pandemic.

ATTOM released its third-quarter 2024 report analyzing qualified low-income Opportunity Zones targeted by Congress for economic redevelopment in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. In this report, ATTOM looked at 3,857 zones around the United States with sufficient data to analyze, meaning they had at least five home sales in the third quarter of 2024. Here’s what it found:

Corporate Settlement Solutions (CSS), a full-suite provider of commercial and residential real estate settlement solutions, released results from an analysis across 10 states that shows home appraisals were higher than sale prices 51% of the time in the first half of 2024.

The latest ICE Home Price Index data shows annual home price gains continued to cool in April, marking the second consecutive month of pullbacks. Gains of +6.1% year over year in February slowed to a revised +5.7% in March before easing to +5.1% as of April. As ICE’s Vice President of Enterprise Research Strategy Andy Walden explains, the cooling is apparent from both seasonally adjusted and unadjusted perspectives. 

While home prices appear to remain impervious to high mortgage rates, the overall housing market appears to be stuck in second gear. Home sales so far this year are only slowly bucking last year’s numbers in most markets despite some increase in inventory.