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Washington, D.C. – U.S. house prices rose in May, up 0.7 percent from April, according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) seasonally adjusted monthly House Price Index (HPI®). House prices rose 2.8 percent from May 2022 to May 2023. The previously reported 0.7 percent increase in April remained unchanged.
For the nine census divisions, seasonally adjusted monthly price changes from April 2023 to May 2023 ranged from -0.5 percent in the New England division to +1.7 percent in the Pacific division. The 12-month changes were -2.7 percent in the Mountain division to +5.5 percent in the East North Central division.
“U.S. house prices increased moderately in May, continuing the trend of the last few months,” said Dr. Nataliya Polkovnichenko, Supervisory Economist in FHFA’s Division of Research and Statistics. “However, house prices in some regions of the country remained below the levels seen one year ago.”
The FHFA HPI is a comprehensive collection of publicly available house price indexes that measure changes in single-family home values based on data that extend back to the mid-1970s from all 50 states and over 400 American cities. It incorporates tens of millions of home sales and offers insights about house price changes at the national, census division, state, metro area, county, ZIP code, and census tract levels. FHFA uses a fully transparent methodology based upon a weighted, repeat-sales statistical technique to analyze house price transaction data.
FHFA releases HPI data and reports quarterly and monthly. The flagship FHFA HPI uses seasonally adjusted, purchase-only data from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Additional indexes use other data including refinances, Federal Housing Administration mortgages, and real property records. All the indexes, including their historic values, and information about future HPI release dates, are available on FHFA’s website: https://www.fhfa.gov/HPI.
FHFA will release its next HPI report on August 29, 2023, including data through the second quarter of 2023 and monthly data through June.
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Adam Russell Adam.Russell@FHFA.gov