Clear Capital HDI Market Report May 2017: Pacific Northwest Turns Up the Heat

RENO, NV --(Marketwired - May 17, 2017) - The Pacific Northwest stands out as the top performing region with its two largest cities, Seattle and Portland, already boasting impressive quarterly gains. The western region, with below-average saturation of distressed properties combined with narrowing affordability and year-over-year price increases well over the 10% mark will present a challenge for homebuyers.

Nationally, quarter-over-quarter home price growth continues to outpace last year's metrics, despite slowly creeping interest rates and two hikes by the Federal Reserve in just the last 6 months.

• Seattle is now the fastest growing major metropolitan housing market in the country once again, with QoQ growth jumping .3% to 1.9% since just last month. Annual growth in Seattle is also setting the pace for the rest of the nation at 12.4%, twice as fast as the 6.2% national average from May 2016 to May 2017. Also in the top 5 markets is nearby Portland, where quarterly price growth is currently paced at 1.5%, while annual growth is also outpacing the national average at 11.5% over the last year.

• Nationally, quarter-over-quarter home price growth is hovering at the 1.0% mark, while annual price change also remains steady at 6.3% with no change since April.

• Regionally, the West continues to lead the rest of the country with quarterly home price growth at 1.2%, and annual growth in the region is also at 8.0%. Quarterly growth in other regions is still healthy for this time of year as the South, Midwest, and Northeast continue to outperform May 2016 QoQ metrics.

• Jacksonville is boasting an impressive quarterly price increase of 1.9%, a jump of 0.2% from 1.7% since April. Distressed properties are a key contributing factor for such performant growth in the Jacksonville housing market -- distressed saturation here is 15.8%, down from 26.2% in May 2016, a decrease of over 10% in a single year.

• This month Dallas drops out of the top performing markets and joins the 15 slowest growing housing markets in the nation. Dallas was the nation's top performing market just 5 months ago with home prices increasing at a rate of 1.5% per quarter, but current quarterly growth rates are almost half that at 0.8%. However, home price changes in Dallas are still a standout from the rest of the nation at 9.1% annual growth.

Data Effective Date: 4/24/2017

Top 30 MSAs April 2017
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