Wilmington, DE-MD-NJ

House prices for this FHFA metro area, real and nominal, since the series begins.

FHFA purchase-only, principal metropolitan division · 1991 Q1 to 2026 Q2 · real terms in 2024 dollars · built 2026-10-31

All metro areas · FHFA publishes the largest metros only as their principal metropolitan division, so this is the core of the metro rather than the whole of it.

The index

Real and nominal, first quarter of the series = 100; the shaded band is 2007 to 2012.

How this is measured
Real terms deflate each quarter by that year's US CPI, stated in 2024 dollars; the CPI runs to 2024, so later quarters sit at 2024 prices until the next print. Purchase-only means repeat sales of the same homes with refinance appraisals excluded, the cleaner of FHFA's two indices, published for the 100 largest metro areas.
real, 2024 dollarsnominalindex, first quarter = 100 · shaded: 2007 to 2012
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One year
One year real +2.0%
nominal +2.0%
Five years
Five years real +19.8%
nominal +38.7%
Ten years
Ten years real +41.9%
nominal +85.4%
Twenty-five years
Twenty-five years real +55.4%
nominal +175.3%
Since 2000
Since 2000 real +65.4%
nominal +201.3%
2007 to 2012
crash, real −32.0%
2007Q3 to 2012Q1

Year by year

Fourth quarter of each year, nominal and real, newest first.

2026 Q2341 · real 341real year on year +0.8%
2025 Q4339 · real 339real year on year +5.1%
2024 Q4322 · real 322real year on year +2.8%
2023 Q4304 · real 313real year on year +1.3%
2022 Q4289 · real 309real year on year +1.6%
2021 Q4263 · real 304real year on year +12.0%
2020 Q4224 · real 272real year on year +6.7%
2019 Q4208 · real 255real year on year +3.8%
2018 Q4197 · real 246real year on year +2.4%
2017 Q4187 · real 240real year on year +1.6%
2016 Q4181 · real 236real year on year −0.8%
2015 Q4180 · real 238real year on year +2.0%

Source

FHFA House Price Index, purchase-only, quarterly, not seasonally adjusted, CBSA 48864. Real terms by the World Bank's US consumer price index, annual.