Pennsylvania

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Pennsylvania

Metro: Philadelphia
What a Home Will Be Worth in 2012: $171,347
Q4 2008 price: $195,000
Projected price change by MSA: -12.1%
Projected price change by state: -3.6%

This year, prices in the nation's fifth-largest metropolitan area are projected to fall 11.6%. Housing prices in the suburbs remain expensive but have still dropped in price. Real estate in Center City also has seen significant declines but will begin to turn around in 2011.