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More homes are losing value | Bedford Real Estate

The number of homes nationwide losing value on a monthly basis has more than tripled over the past year while the number of appreciating homes has fallen more than 12 percent, Allan Weiss, CEO of Weiss Residential Research reported today.

Depreciating homes increased from 7.60 percent to 23.40 percent while the number of appreciating homes has fallen from 65.20 to 56.80 percent, according to an analysis of July data from “canary homes” that are indicators of price trends in Weiss Residential Research’s databases of nearly 100 million homes.

“While a majority of homes nationwide is still gaining value, the national trend is clearly downward. With the decline in year over year prices in the existing home sales report released today by the National Association of Realtors, even the national median price reports are picking up on the trend, reflecting the growing of numbers homes that are changing from appreciation to depreciation. In this environment buyers and investors should be careful to avoid buying properties that are losing value by reviewing metro and Zip code maps on Owners.com that show hyper-local trends in changing value,” Weiss said.

Even seven of the top ten Metro markets with the highest levels of appreciation in July saw a year over year decline in the percentage of homes gaining more than 1.5 percent. Reno, Nevada leads the nation in appreciating properties in July, with more than 91.4 percent gaining value on a monthly bases, though 93.7 percent were appreciating a year ago. Western and West Coast markets dominate the list of markets with the highest percentages of appreciating properties.

Best Metros by Rising more than 1.5%	2014	2015
Reno, NV	97.3%	91.4%
Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO	96.9%	90.0%
Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	95.5%	86.8%
Fort Collins, CO	96.0%	86.5%
Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR-MO	46.1%	85.7%
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	93.6%	81.1%
Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA	68.7%	80.7%
Port St. Lucie, FL	92.5%	78.7%
Stockton-Lodi, CA	92.7%	77.6%
Nashville-Davidson–Murfreesboro–Franklin, TN	86.0%	77.5%

Fayetteville, NC tops the list of the nation’s ten worst metros in terms of the percentage of properties gaining value on a monthly basis in July. Its percentage of appreciating homes fell from 22.9 percent in July 2014 to 18 percent in July 2015.

Worst Metros by Rising more than 1.5%	2014	2015
Fayetteville, NC	22.9%	18.0%
Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR	30.1%	20.4%
Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD	31.8%	30.1%
Toledo, OH	36.2%	32.9%
Lancaster, PA	42.5%	39.4%
Greensboro-High Point, NC	43.6%	40.9%
Chico, CA	61.9%	41.5%
Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT	29.4%	41.5%
Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC	40.2%	41.6%
Peoria, IL	26.5%	41.7%

Consumer seeking information about their homes and neighborhoods can see how values have changed and are forecasted to change in the next 12 months within 5500 Zip codes and 100 metros on Owners.com http://www.owners.com/ or http://www.weissindex.com/.