Home prices increased in February both month-over-month and annually, according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s seasonally adjusted monthly House Price Index.
Home prices rise 0.8% in February, the index shows, and the previous halt in January’s home price growth was revised upward to a 0.2% increase. Home prices increased 6.4% annually.
But FHFA isn’t the only index showing an increase in home prices in February. Tuesday, the Case-Shiller indices reported home prices increase to an all-time high for the fourth consecutive month.
And Black Knight’s report Monday also showed home prices hit a new high in February.
This chart shows that since around 2012, home prices have steadily grown each year.
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(Source: FHFA)
The FHFA monthly HPI is calculated using home sales price information from mortgages sold to, or guaranteed by, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Because of this, the selection excludes high-end homes bought with jumbo loans or cash sales.
Across the nine census divisions, seasonally adjusted monthly price changes in February ranged from a decrease of 0.1% in the South Atlantic division to an increase of 1.8% in the East South Central division. Annually, all changes were positive, ranging from an increase of 4.6% in the Middle Atlantic division to 9.5% in the Mountain division.
Here is a list of which states are in each of those divisions:
South Atlantic: Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida
East South Central: Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama
Middle Atlantic: New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania
Mountain: Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico
