Reliant Mortgage Company

The Norman Rosskothen Team

  • Increase font size
  • Default font size
  • Decrease font size
Home Mortgage & Real Estate News Hub Home Values Continue to Increase

Hub Home Values Continue to Increase

E-mail Print PDF

Home values in Greater Boston defied the nationwide trend, increasing 3.4% year-over-year in the second quarter, states a new report by Zillow.

In the Boston area, the average home value of properties listed on Zillow is $331,568, up 3.2% from the first quarter.

In the Cape Code area, home values fell 2.8% year-over-year to $318,026.

Home values nationwide continued to decline in the second quarter, with the Zillow Home Value Index falling 3.2% year-over-year and 0.6% from the first quarter to $182,500.

The national rate of value decline decreased from the first quarter, marking the second consecutive quarter of slowing declines, according to the second quarter Zillow Real Estate Market Reports.
 

 

Newsflash

Americans favor walkable, mixed-use neighborhoods, with 56 percent preferring smart growth neighborhoods over neighborhoods that require more driving between home, work and recreation, according to a recent survey by the National Association of Realtors (NAR).