U.S. House Prices Rise 1.7 Percent Year over Year; Up 0.5 percent Quarter over Quarter

Washington, D.C. - U.S. house prices rose 1.7 percent between the first quarter of 2025 and the first quarter of 2026, according to the U.S. Federal Housing (FHFA) House Price Index (FHFA HPI^®). House prices for the first quarter of 2026 rose 0.5 percent compared to the fourth quarter of 2025. FHFA's seasonally adjusted monthly index for March rose 0.1 percent from February.

Significant Findings

• Nationally, the U.S. housing market has experienced positive annual appreciation each quarter since the start of 2012.
• House prices rose in 42 states between the first quarter of 2025 and the first quarter of 2026. The five states with the highest annual appreciation were 1) Illinois, 7.3 percent; 2) Alaska, 5.5 percent; 3) Vermont, 4.9 percent; 4) Connecticut, 4.7 percent; and 5) Kentucky, 4.7 percent. House prices were down in eight states and in the District of Columbia. Colorado experienced the most significant price decline at 2.4 percent.
• House prices rose in 65 of the 100 largest metropolitan areas over the previous four quarters. The annual price increase was the greatest in Elgin, IL at 10.8 percent. The metropolitan area that experienced the most significant price decline was Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX at 6.9 percent.
• Seven of the nine census divisions had positive house price changes year-over-year. The East North Central division recorded the strongest appreciation, posting a 4.4 percent increase from the first quarter of 2025 to the first quarter of 2026. The West South Central division recorded a 0.7 percent decline.
• Trends in the Top 100 Metropolitan Statistical Areas are available in our interactive dashboard: https://www.fhfa.gov/data/dashboard/fhfa-hpi-top-100-metro-area-rankings. The first tab displays rankings, and the second tab offers charts.

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, mortgages insured by the Federal Housing Administration, 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.

Tables and graphs showing home price statistics for metropolitan areas, states, census divisions, and the United States are included on the following pages.

Notes

• All statistics in this report reflect seasonally adjusted index values.
• Starting with this release, FHFA publishes the broadened Expanded-Data HPI with an increased coverage from 50 metropolitan areas to over 400 areas. More details are discussed at https://www.fhfa.gov/document/d/hpi/2026m01_hpi_technical_note.pdf.
• FHFA will release the next monthly HPI report (including data through April 2026) on June 30, 2026, and the next quarterly report (including data for the second quarter of 2026 and monthly data for June 2026) on August 25, 2026.
• FHFA posts release dates for the remainder of 2026 at https://www.fhfa.gov/data/hpi#ReleaseDates.

Attachment: FHFA HPI® Quarterly - May 2026

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The Federal Housing Finance Agency regulates Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the 11 Federal Home Loan Banks. These government-sponsored enterprises provide more than $8.5 trillion in funding for the U.S. mortgage markets and financial institutions. Additional information is available at www.FHFA.gov, on X @FHFA, YouTube, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

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