October's deceleration in housing values could be followed by acceleration in 2020, but a growing subset of millennials nevertheless plan to become homeowners in the new year, according to CoreLogic.
"Nationally, over the past year, home prices are up 3.5% with the rate of growth accelerating from September into October," Frank Martell, president and CEO of CoreLogic, said in a press release. "We expect home prices to rise at least another 5% over the next 12 months. Interestingly, this persistent increase in home prices isn't deterring older millennials. In fact, 25% of those surveyed anticipate purchasing a home over the next six to eight months."
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Although national home price growth is expected to pick up next year, there also will likely be some local areas where more depreciation will set in.
"Local home-price growth can deviate widely from the change in our U.S. index," said Frank Nothaft, chief economist at CoreLogic. "While we saw prices up 3.5% nationally last year, home prices also declined in 22 metropolitan areas. Price softness occurred in some high-cost urban areas and in metros with weak employment growth during the past year."
Broken down by the largest 100 metropolitan statistical areas in the nation by housing stock, 35% of homes were overvalued in October, while 27% were undervalued and 38% were at value. When that list was cut down to the top 50 largest MSAs, 40% were overvalued, just 20% were undervalued and 40% were at value.
At the state level, Idaho once again led the way with a 10.9% annual price growth, followed by Maine's 7.5% and Indiana's 7.1%. Connecticut posted the lowest annual change in HPI with a flat 0% appreciation.
