home prices

Real estate values

Home prices refers to the market value of residential real estate—what houses, condos, and apartments sell for.

The phrase typically appears in economic discussions about housing affordability, wealth, and market trends: Home prices in the region have doubled over the past decade.

Rising home prices benefit owners but squeeze prospective buyers.

Opposites
housing cost type

home pricesrent

Payment for temporary use

rental rates · rent prices · lease payments · monthly rent · renting

market direction

home priceshousing crash

Sudden property value decline

negative equity

affordability spectrum

home pricesaffordable housing

Shelter scaled to earnings

housing affordability · low-cost housing · accessible housing · buyer's market · subsidized housing

Family

home, price, homes, homed, homing, homeward, homeless, homely, homeland

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