Greensboro area sees home-price appreciation of 3.6 percent
Home prices in the Greensboro area rose 3.6 percent between the final quarter of 2005 and the end of last year.
But home prices in the Greensboro-High Point Metropolitan Statistical Area held fairly steady between the third and fourth quarters of 2006, according to a report released Thursday by the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight.
The report, which also ranked states based on housing-price appreciations, found North Carolina in 13th place for the greatest growth in prices during the past year.
Home prices in the state rose nearly 8.2 percent from the fourth quarter of 2005 to the final quarter of '06 - and they grew 2.5 percent just between the third and fourth quarters of last year.
That's more than the national level of appreciation. Home prices throughout the country increased by nearly 5.8 percent between the end of '05 and '06, and they posted growth of about 1.1 percent during the final two quarters of last year.
But these increases, overall, are much smaller than the jumps home prices have made during the past few years, officials with the federal housing group said in a news release. Home prices grew faster during the past year than the prices of other goods and services, but they fell short of the heights seen from 2002 to 2005, when home prices grew as much as 13.2 percent.
OFHEO officials said a strong economy and decreasing interest rates for consumers borrowing money kept the housing market from seeing sharp declines at the end of last year.
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