CoreLogic’s latest Home Price Index (HPI) and HPI Forecast data for March 2016 shows home prices are up both year-over-year and month-over-month.
Home prices nationwide, including distressed sales, increased by 6.7 percent year-over-year and by 2.1 percent month-over-month, according to the CoreLogic HPI.
The CoreLogic HPI Forecast indicates that home prices will increase by 5.3 percent on a year-over-year basis from March 2016 to March 2017, and on a month-over-month basis home prices are expected to increase 0.7 percent from March 2016 to April 2016.
“Housing helped keep U.S. economic growth afloat in the first quarter of 2016 as residential investment recorded its strongest gain since the end of 2012,” CoreLogic Chief Economist Frank Nothaft said in a news release. “Low interest rates and increased home building suggest that housing will continue to be a growth driver.”
“Home prices reached the bottom five years ago, and since then have appreciated almost 40 percent,” CoreLogic CEO and President Anand Nallathambi said. “The highest appreciation was in the West, where prices continue to increase at double-digit rates.”
The CoreLogic HPI Forecast is a projection of home prices using the CoreLogic HPI and other economic variables. Values are derived from state-level forecasts by weighting indices according to the number of owner-occupied households for each state.