10 Healthiest Housing Markets

Click to launch slideshowThe housing news may be gloomy but for homeowners there are still some oases in the growing real estate desert


By Marc Hogan

Housing prices may be cooling nationwide, but some real estate markets remain hotter than others. During the second quarter, a few regions still saw double-digit annual increases in typical prices for an existing single-family home, according to the National Association of Realtors. Nationally, average home-price appreciation slowed to a 3.7% clip in the same period. Here are the 10 metropolitan areas with the second quarter's fastest-growing median home prices above the $227,500 national average:

Source: All rankings and data according to the National Association of Realtors
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