Here’s a city-by-city look at U.S. house prices, after the S&P/Case-Shiller 20-city composite showed a 0.4% advance in home prices during August, to stretch year-on-year gains to 5.1%.
The list is drawn from the cities in the index, which doesn’t include some major metropolitan areas including Houston and Philadelphia.
| City | Monthly change | Yearly change |
| Atlanta | 0.2% | 5.6% |
| Boston | 0.4% | 4.6% |
| Charlotte | 0% | 4.9% |
| Chicago | 0.7% | 1.9% |
| Cleveland | 0.1% | 2.9% |
| Dallas | 0.8% | 8.9% |
| Denver | 0.9% | 10.7% |
| Detroit | 0.6% | 5.3% |
| Las Vegas | 0.3% | 6% |
| Los Angeles | 0.1% | 6.2% |
| Miami | 0.4% | 7.4% |
| Minneapolis | 0.3% | 3.5% |
| New York | 0.5% | 1.8% |
| Phoenix | 0.6% | 4.9% |
| Portland | 1.1% | 9.4% |
| San Diego | 0.3% | 5.9% |
| San Francisco | -0.1% | 10.7% |
| Seattle | 0.3% | 7.6% |
| Tampa | 0.5% | 6.1% |
| Washington | 0.2% | 1.9% |
• Eighteen out of 20 cities reported monthly gains. That’s not unusual for the summer, and after seasonal adjustment, five were down, 11 were up, and four were unchanged.
• The report notes that, when adjusted for inflation, prices now are rising almost as quickly as they did during the 2005-2006 boom. One difference is the current growth is more about restricted supplies than overflowing demand.
• Compared to Aug. 2014, Denver and San Francisco have the fastest growth at 10.7%; New York, Chicago and Washington D.C. each have growth of under 2%.
• The Case-Shiller index combines three months of data, so in the August report, transactions included those in June and July.
• The Federal Housing Finance Agency’s home price index said prices rose 5.5% over the preceding 12 months, while CoreLogic said prices grew 6.9% over the same time period.