The above chart estimates the market value of today's median-priced Orlando, Florida metropolitan area house from 1978 until present. The red line represents inflation-adjusted house prices. The blue line represents nominal house prices.
Latest quarterly, median, existing, single-family home price provided by the National Association of Realtors.
Trailing house price index data provided by the Federal Housing Finance Agency.
Inflation data provided by the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland and the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The chart on this page estimates the market value of today's median-priced house over time. The trailing nominal prices are derived by taking the recent median price of existing single-family homes, as reported by the National Association of Realtors, and discounting it by the FHFA House Price Index. The FHFA HPI is a "constant quality" index, so even though houses are built larger today than they were many years ago, this graph automatically adjusts for this variation. The trailing inflation-adjusted prices are then derived by adjusting the nominal prices by the CPI-U Research Series Using Current Methods. Prior to Q4 1977, the CPI - All Items Less Shelter is used.
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