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From 1998 to 2018, How Far a Buck Goes in the DC Area Housing Market

  • August 30th 2018

by Nena Perry-Brown

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A new Zillow study examines the trajectory of home prices nationwide by showing how far a dollar goes in a variety of metro areas. The report finds that, in 2018, $1 will buy 1.07 square inches of home nationwide. In 1998, $1 went about twice as far, buying 2.09 square inches of home.

In the DC area, which has a median home price of $561,000 according to study data, one dollar will buy a mere 0.27 square inches of home in 2018 vs. 1.33 square inches in 1998, a 5 percent increase year-over-year.

The study examines the 35 most populous metro areas and calculates median home value based on the Zillow Home Value Index, which determines the median based on a typical day of sales.

Despite the fact that a dollar doesn't go very far in the DC region, it goes much farther than several west coast cities, including San Jose (0.2) and San Francisco (0.14). 

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This article originally published at https://dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blog/from-1998-to-2018-how-far-a-buck-goes-in-the-dc-area/14383.

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