Friday, May 23, 2008

Fallin hard, but not too hard

Yikes! Arizona homes prices are dropping faster then ever according to figures from the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight. The value of an average home in Arizona slid 5.5% in the first quarter of this year compared with the same period last year.

At least Arizona didn't rank number one in the list. Florida homes lost 8.1% of their value, while Nevada saw a 10.3% decline and California saw a 10.6% decline.

Tucson home values didn't see quite the decline that Arizona saw overall. Year over year values in Tucson are down 2.9%, with a single quarter drop of 2%. Phoenix saw a big drop of 6.7%. Still puts Arizona home values up more then 72% over the same period five years ago, so homeowners that bought around 2002-2004 should have quite a bit of equity.

OFHEA has a great little graph that shows the trends in Tucson property appreciation


Read about Arizona home prices falling at record rate

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Tucson home values didn't see quite the decline that Arizona saw overall..........


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