The Top 10 Housing Markets for the Next 10 Years

Home prices in these 10 cities will appreciate handsomely over the next decade

By Luke Mullins

Posted: June 4, 2009

If moose sightings are more your style, check out Anchorage, Alaska, where Moody's Economy.com projects that home prices will appreciate by an average of 3.8 percent a year over the next 10 years. The real estate market in the Duluth, Minn., area is expected to post similar gains of about 3.7 percent annually. Home prices near Sandusky, Ohio, are also expected to increase an average of 3.7 percent a year over the next 10 years. That's only slightly ahead of the Santa Fe, N.M., area's projected 3.6 percent annual gains. The revitalization of Pittsfield, Mass.'s, downtown district could help area home prices rise an average of 3.5 percent a year over the next 10 years. Meanwhile, Decatur, Ill.'s, development into a green energy hub should help its housing market post roughly 3.4 percent annual gains, according to Moody's Economy.com.

Here's the projected average annual percent change in home prices from the fourth quarter of 2008 to the fourth quarter of 2018:

  1. Bremerton-Silverdale, Wash.: 5.22 percent
  2. Glens Falls, N.Y: 4.71 percent
  3. Fort Collins-Loveland, Colo.: 4.06 percent
  4. Corvallis, Ore.: 3.95 percent
  5. Anchorage, Alaska: 3.8 percent
  6. Duluth, Minn.: 3.74 percent
  7. Sandusky, Ohio: 3.66 percent
  8. Santa Fe, N.M: 3.57 percent
  9. Pittsfield, Mass.: 3.51 percent
  10. Decatur, Ill.: 3.44 percent
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jerrielsch of AZ @ Nov 25, 2009 13:36:44 PM

Are you serious PETER!

Did you seriously put KKK in your wording?????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! RACIST!!

The agenda of Obama has nothing to do with race, creed, origin, sex, etc.

GROW UP and get a life...political views are that of each individual person, as this country so allows! However, racial slurs get you nothing but to look like the ignorant jacka@@ you have posted for everyone to see!

Because you not agree with Obama, does not entitle you to bash against him in a racial tone, apparently you posted to the wrong site...find another!

It is a multitude of things that have brought this country to the state it is in.

Corporate greed, tax incentives that really only apply to politicians ( wish I could write a $15K trash can) so on and so forth.

I voted for Obama, but am no longer a supporter. I do not agree with the tactics or debt we have incurred on his watch. Although it would not have mattered to literally who was in office as far as the bailouts were concerned ( was going to happen either way) but, it does matter to me why all these pork filled bills keep running through a Democratic house without a blink as if they were needed.

WE NEED JOBS, HOMES AND to remember a simpler way of life. A Healthcare bill at this time is just NOT a priority until we have jobs to keep paying the already high tax bill we will encounter in 5 years.

We are dealing with the doling out of trillions of dollars on the American people to help our economy get back on track and to add another bill when people can't even afford food, pisses me off!

PRIORITIES MR. PRESIDENT, stand up and speak for a NATION, not a party!

Rachel of IL @ Nov 24, 2009 15:31:17 PM

I second that!

hate to say it, but Smitty's right. The mess started w/ Clinton, got worse with Bush and Obama is bankrupting an already volatile economy. Thank gosh we are coming out of the recession ( thanks to Bush), no fixes from Obama...but he would like you to think so! The economy revolves every 8 year, approximately....so, Bush tried to fix what he already saw coming! Free Trade was opened up by Clinton, with no restrictions in place to guarantee our economic growth from it. We were founded on manufacturing and he ALLOWED all the greedy corporations to go to other countries, to lower wages, instead of saying that there were restrictions on how much labor could be used out of country!

Instead what we get is a puppet on a string, still high unemployment and trying to push through a health care bill that will only affect 17.8"% of Americans...pretty shady to do knowing that the Americam people are in a fragile state, but what a better time to do it....hmmmmmmm....think about that, pulling thw wool over your eyes, while trying to sugarcoat a crap bill that will help the healthcare industry, with $$ in politicians pockets and we are paying for it, yet again!! WAKE UP PEOPLE!!!

Rachel of IL @ Nov 24, 2009 15:14:27 PM

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