4.22.2011

Chart of the Day: inflation-adjusted median price of a single-family home in the United States over the past 41 years

Inflation-adjusted median price of a single-family home in the United States over the past 41 years

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For some perspective on the all-important US real estate market, today's chart illustrates the inflation-adjusted median price of a single-family home in the United States over the past 41 years. Not only did housing prices increase at a rapid rate from 1991 to 2005, the rate at which housing prices increased -- increased. That brings us to today's chart which illustrates how the inflation-adjusted median home price is currently 38% off its 2005 peak. That's a $100,000 drop. In fact, a home buyer who bought the median priced single-family home at the 1979 peak has actually seen that home lose value (8.5% loss). Not an impressive performance considering that more than three decades have passed. It is worth noting that the median priced home is currently in the bottom half of a price range that existed from the late 1970s into the mid-1990s.

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  1. Here is another graph. When adjusting for inflation, homes don't appreciate all that much. If I did my math correct, and this chart is correct, it looks to be about .4%.
    http://www.jparsons.net/housingbubble/

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