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Boston real estate: S&P/ Case-Shiller – Housing prices on the rise (Fastest pace in 7 years).
December is usually the slowest month for the housing market, but price gains didn’t slow down one bit in 2020. In fact, they rose at the fastest pace in 7 years.
Home prices nationally increased 10.4% compared with December 2019, according to the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Home Price Indices.
The 10-city composite annual increase was 9.8%, up from 8.9% in November. The 20-city composite posted a 10.1% gain, up from 9.2% in the previous month. Detroit was excluded, due to Covid-related data collection issues.
“2020′s 10.4% gain marks the best performance of housing prices in a calendar year since 2013,” said Craig Lazzara, managing director and global head of index investment strategy at S&P Dow Jones Indices. “From the perspective of more than 30 years of S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller data, December’s year-over-year change ranks within the top decile of all reports.
Real Estate Trends
These data are consistent with the view that Covid has encouraged potential buyers to move from urban apartments to suburban homes. This may indicate a secular shift in housing demand, or may simply represent an acceleration of moves that would have taken place over the next several years anyway.
Real Estate Market: Key Points
- The 10-city composite annual increase was 9.8%, up from 8.9% in November.
- The 20-city composite posted a 10.1% gain, up from 9.2% in the previous month.
- Phoenix, Seattle, and San Diego continued to show the strongest price gains among the 19 cities surveyed.
