Home prices climb nationally and in Boston-Ma, which ranks No. 14 for annual percentage growth: Massachusetts HomeBuyers HomeOwnership

 Home prices nationwide continued to climb higher in February compared to twelve months ago, according to the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Indices released in April. The national home price index showed a 19.8 percent annual gain in February. Within the twenty City Composite Home Price Index, Phoenix (32.9 percent), Tampa (32.6 percent) and Miami (29.7 percent) showed the biggest annual percentage growth.
Boston was fourteenth on the list at 14.6 percent pricing growth.

 “The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Index pushed up to a 19.8 percent increase in February, the second consecutive month of accelerated growth after a winter lull, and another month of the strongest annual increase since the beginning of the data series,” said CoreLogic Deputy Chief Economist Selma Happ. “Price growth was robust across the country with all twenty metro areas experiencing stronger annual gains than in January. The largest increases in annual gains were in the West Coast markets: Los Angeles, Seattle, San Diego and San Francisco, and also in high tier price segments.”

The communities in the twenty city index, ranked by annual pricing percentage growth:
Phoenix — 32.9 percent
Tampa — 32.6 percent
Miami — 29.7 percent
San Diego — 29.1 percent
Dallas — 28.8 percent
Las Vegas — 27.5 percent
Seattle — 26.6 percent
Charlotte — 25.5 percent
Atlanta — twenty four percent
San Francisco — 22.9 percent
Denver — 22.3 percent
Los Angeles — 22.1 percent
Portland — nineteen percent
Boston — 14.6 percent
Detroit — 14.6 percent
Cleveland — 13.6 percent
Chicago — 13.1%
New York — 12.9 percent
Minneapolis — twelve percent
Washington — 11.9 percent

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