By FindTheBest.com
WASHINGTON — American consumers might have reason to believe that the recovering economy is keeping costs down. After all, gas prices have recently hit lows we haven’t seen in years. A strong dollar has made purchases more affordable and national unemployment dipped to 5.5 percent earlier this year.
But when it comes to things like buying a home, Americans might be startled at how quickly prices have rebounded in many places following the economic recession. Prices haven’t increased uniformly; some areas still have relatively affordable home prices, while others have homes with prices that seem to rise exponentially each year.
Using data from their real estate market trends topic, our data experts at FindTheHome identified the most expensive states to buy a home based on the median home sale price in each state.
These statistics are sourced from public county records and reflect the median price of all home sales recorded in February 2015. District of Columbia had the most expensive median home prices in February 2015, with a median sale price of $467,500, an increase of 0.13% from the same period 12 months ago. Hawaii followed second with a median sale price of $438,000, jumping 9.50% since last year.
United States | Market Trends | FindTheHome
Methodolgy: FindTheHome collects home transaction information from publicly available county records. Individual transactions are aggregated by ZIP, county, and state boundaries to compute aggregate statistics like median sale price. These aggregates solely consider homes whose sale was recorded in February 2015.