{"id":21,"date":"2026-09-18T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/brooksgroupkw-com\/2026\/09\/18\/house-price-appreciation-by-state-and-metro-area-in-the-second-quarter-of-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T17:00:00","slug":"house-price-appreciation-by-state-and-metro-area-in-the-second-quarter-of-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brooksgroupkw.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/18\/house-price-appreciation-by-state-and-metro-area-in-the-second-quarter-of-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"House Price Appreciation by State and Metro Area in the Second Quarter of 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>Homeownership is more than numbers\u2014it&#039;s about building lasting legacies for families. In the second quarter of 2026, U.S. house prices climbed 2.1% year-over-year, with 47 states seeing appreciation. Alaska and Vermont stood out with the strongest growth, while New Mexico and Washington experienced slight declines. On the metro front, 75 areas showed gains, with Elgin, IL leading the pack and Everett, WA seeing a dip. Trends like these remind us how important it is to understand both the broader market and our local communities. At The Brooks Group, we combine deep market knowledge and a commitment to our clients\u2019 goals\u2014helping you navigate every shift with confidence and purpose.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/eyeonhousing.org\/2026\/09\/house-price-appreciation-by-state-and-metro-area-in-the-second-quarter-of-2026\/\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Homeownership is more than numbers\u2014it&#039;s about building lasting legacies for families. In the second quarter of 2026, U.S. house prices climbed 2.1% year-over-year, with 47 states seeing appreciation. Alaska and Vermont stood out with the strongest growth, while New Mexico and Washington experienced slight declines. On the metro front, 75 areas showed gains, with Elgin, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":49,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brooksgroupkw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brooksgroupkw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brooksgroupkw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brooksgroupkw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brooksgroupkw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brooksgroupkw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brooksgroupkw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brooksgroupkw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brooksgroupkw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brooksgroupkw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}