U.S. Housing Market Year-by-Year Archives

Sixty-two annual reports covering every U.S. housing market year from 1963 through 2024 — new-home sales, existing-home sales, median home prices for both, and the Freddie Mac 30-year fixed mortgage rate (annual averages, 1971 onward). Each year-page includes the headline figures, the year-over-year change, the year's rank within its decade for every series, and an inflation-adjusted "real terms" reading using CPI-U. Years marked in rust were classified as U.S. recessions by the NBER's Business Cycle Dating Committee.

The series chosen here are deliberately limited to widely-cited primary sources, so every annual data point can be reconciled to a government or trade-association publication: U.S. Census Bureau Survey of Construction (new-home sales and median sale prices), National Association of Realtors Existing Home Sales (existing-home volume and median sale price), Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey (30-year fixed rate), and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI-U (for the inflation-adjusted views).

For longer-arc context, see the cycle explainers covering the Volcker crash, the 2008 subprime collapse, and the 2020 COVID surge — each links back into the relevant year archives. To see how a single year played out at the regional level, the state pages and 100 metro pages carry the FHFA House Price Index for the same period.