{"id":24,"date":"2026-09-24T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/glorianowotarski-com\/2026\/09\/24\/house-price-appreciation-by-state-and-metro-area-in-the-second-quarter-of-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T13:00:00","slug":"house-price-appreciation-by-state-and-metro-area-in-the-second-quarter-of-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glorianowotarski.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/24\/house-price-appreciation-by-state-and-metro-area-in-the-second-quarter-of-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"House Price Appreciation by State and Metro Area in the Second Quarter of 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>It\u2019s always interesting to see where home values are headed\u2014especially when you\u2019re guiding clients through major life changes. In the second quarter of 2026, U.S. house prices rose by 2.1% year-over-year, and 47 states saw gains. Alaska and Vermont saw the biggest jumps, while New Mexico and Washington experienced declines. On the metro level, 75 areas posted increases, with Elgin, IL leading and Everett, WA seeing a dip.<\/p>\n<p>Having helped Naperville-area buyers and sellers for over twenty years, these trends matter to me because every move\u2014whether it\u2019s your first, your next, or your last\u2014deserves a strategy grounded in up-to-the-minute market realities. I\u2019ve found that patience and a clear understanding of these shifts make all the difference when choosing your next step.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/eyeonhousing.org\/2026\/09\/house-price-appreciation-by-state-and-metro-area-in-the-second-quarter-of-2026\/\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s always interesting to see where home values are headed\u2014especially when you\u2019re guiding clients through major life changes. In the second quarter of 2026, U.S. house prices rose by 2.1% year-over-year, and 47 states saw gains. Alaska and Vermont saw the biggest jumps, while New Mexico and Washington experienced declines. On the metro level, 75 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":49,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glorianowotarski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glorianowotarski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glorianowotarski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glorianowotarski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glorianowotarski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glorianowotarski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glorianowotarski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glorianowotarski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glorianowotarski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}