US Home Price Insights – July 2023

Economy Team
July 10, 2023
Home prices nationwide, including distressed sales, increased year over year by 1.4% in May 2023 compared with May 2022. On a month-over-month basis, home prices increased by 0.9% in May 2023 compared with April 2023 (revisions with public records data are standard, and to ensure accuracy, CoreLogic incorporates the newly released public data to provide updated results).

Forecast Prices Nationally

The CoreLogic HPI Forecast indicates that home prices will increase on a month-over-month basis  by 1% from May 2023 to June 2023 and increase on a year-over-year basis by 4.5% from May 2023 to May 2024.

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Regional Home Price Trends Continue in May

Following recent trends, a significant number of Western states saw prices decline in May from the same time in 2022, reflecting out-migration from less-urban locations where people moved during the height of the pandemic and the significant loss of affordability due to those resulting home price surges. Northeastern states and Southeastern metro areas continue to see larger home price gains compared with other areas of the country, due to both workers slowly moving back to job centers in some areas of the country and settling in relatively affordable places in others.

“After peaking in the spring of 2022, annual home price deceleration continued in May. Despite slowing year-over-year price growth, the recent momentum in monthly price gains continues in the face of recent mortgage rates increases. Nevertheless, following a cumulative increase of almost 4% in home prices between February and April of 2023, elevated mortgage rates and high home prices are putting pressure on potential buyers. These dynamics are cooling recent month-over-month home price growth, which  began to taper and is returning to the pre-pandemic average, with a 0.9% increase from April to May.” –Selma Hepp , Chief Economist for CoreLogic

HPI National and State Maps – May 2023

The CoreLogic HPI provides measures for multiple market segments, referred to as tiers, based on property type, price, time between sales, loan type (conforming vs. non-conforming) and distressed sales. Broad national coverage is available from the national level down to ZIP Code, including non-disclosure states. Nationally, home prices increased by 1.4% year over year in May. Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New York, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington and the District of Columbia saw annual declines in home prices. The states with the highest increases year over year were Maine (7.2%), New Jersey (7.1%) and Indiana (6.9%).[Image: https://www.corelogic.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2023/07/04-hpi-change-by-state-map_MAY-23.jpg?w=1024]Year-over-year home price changes by state

HPI Top 10 Metros Change

The CoreLogic HPI provides measures for multiple market segments, referred to as tiers, based on property type, price, time between sales, loan type (conforming vs. non-conforming) and distressed sales. Broad national coverage is available from the national level down to ZIP Code, including non-disclosure states. Below is a look at home price changes in large U.S. metros in May, with Miami again posting the largest gain at 11.8% year over year.[Image: https://www.corelogic.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2023/07/05-hpi-top-us-metros_MAY-23.jpg?w=1024]Year-over-year home price changes by select metro areas

Markets to Watch: Top Markets at Risk of Home Price Decline

The CoreLogic Market Risk Indicator (MRI), a monthly update of the overall health of housing markets across the country, predicts that Provo-Orem, UT is at a very high risk (70%-plus probability) of a decline in home prices over the next 12 months. Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL; North Port-Sarasota-Bradenton, FL; Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL and Port St. Lucie, FL are also at very high risk for price declines.[Image: https://www.corelogic.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2023/07/06-hpi-markets-to-watch_MAY-23.jpg?w=1024]Top five U.S. markets at risk of annual price declines

Summary

CoreLogic HPI features deep, broad coverage, including non-disclosure state data. The index is built from industry-leading real-estate public record, servicing, and securities databases—including more than 40 years of repeat-sales transaction data—and all undergo strict pre-boarding assessment and normalization processes. CoreLogic HPI and HPI Forecasts both provide multi-tier market evaluations based on price, time between sales, property type, loan type (conforming vs. non-conforming) and distressed sales, helping clients hone in on price movements in specific market segments. Updated monthly, the index is the fastest home-price valuation information in the industry—complete home-price index datasets five weeks after month’s end. The Index is completely refreshed each month—all pricing history from 1976 to the current month—to provide the most up-to-date, accurate indication of home-price movements available.

Methodology

The CoreLogic HPI™ is built on industry-leading public record, servicing and securities real-estate databases and incorporates more than 40 years of repeat-sales transactions for analyzing home price trends. Generally released on the first Tuesday of each month with an average five-week lag, the CoreLogic HPI is designed to provide an early indication of home price trends by market segment and for the “Single-Family Combined” tier, representing the most comprehensive set of properties, including all sales for single-family attached and single-family detached properties. The indices are fully revised with each release and employ techniques to signal turning points sooner. The CoreLogic HPI provides measures for multiple market segments, referred to as tiers, based on property type, price, time between sales, loan type (conforming vs. non-conforming) and distressed sales. Broad national coverage is available from the national level down to ZIP Code, including non-disclosure states. CoreLogic HPI Forecasts™ are based on a two-stage, error-correction econometric model that combines the equilibrium home price—as a function of real disposable income per capita—with short-run fluctuations caused by market momentum, mean-reversion, and exogenous economic shocks like changes in the unemployment rate. With a 30-year forecast horizon, CoreLogic HPI Forecasts project CoreLogic HPI levels for two tiers — “Single-Family Combined” (both attached and detached) and “Single-Family Combined Excluding Distressed Sales.” As a companion to the CoreLogic HPI Forecasts, Stress-Testing Scenarios align with Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR) national scenarios to project five years of home prices under baseline, adverse and severely adverse scenarios at state, metropolitan areas and ZIP Code levels. The forecast accuracy represents a 95% statistical confidence interval with a +/- 2% margin of error for the index.

About Market Risk IndicatorsMarket Risk Indicators are a subscription-based analytics solution that provide monthly updates on the overall “health” of housing markets across the country. CoreLogic data scientists combine world-class analytics with detailed economic and housing data to help determine the likelihood of a housing bubble burst in 392 major metros and all 50 states. Market Risk Indicators is a multi-phase regression model that provides a probability score (from 1 to 100) on the likelihood of two scenarios per metro: a >10% price reduction and a ≤ 10% price reduction. The higher the score, the higher the risk of a price reduction.

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