Prices Tripled in 13 U.S. Cities Since 2000 – 2 in Florida

 By Alix Martichoux

In two Florida cities, Miami and Tampa, prices rose more than 200% in a little over 20 years – No. 8 and No. 9 in the U.S. for price increase percentages.

SAN FRANCISCO – The cost of housing – much like everything else – has gone way up over the past year. Low inventory and low interest rates have thrust the median price of a home in the U.S. up by nearly 20% in a single year.

But the latest jump is just an acceleration of what’s been happening for 20 years. Most major cities have seen home prices increase substantially since 2000, with many seeing home values double or even triple.

In some cities, the typical home value has more than tripled. San Francisco, for example, had a typical home value of $356,800 in 2000, according to data analyzed by real estate brokerage Clever; in 2022, the typical home value is nearly $1.4 million – a 290% increase, or nearly quadruple the value 22 years ago.

San Francisco is often held up as the most extreme example of a housing market gone wild, but it’s not the only city where home values rose astronomically, even with falling home prices during the Great Recession around 2010.

Clever analyzed the median sale price of homes in the 50 largest metro areas around the country and found 13 cities saw home values more than triple since 2000. The 13 cities where home values have gone up by more than 200% – i.e. tripled – since 2000 are:

1. San Francisco (290% increase)
2. Los Angeles (280% increase)
3. Riverside, Calif. (278% increase)
4. San Diego (275% increase)
5. San Jose, Calif. (261% increase)
6. Sacramento, Calif. (237% increase)
7. Seattle (235% increase)
8. Tampa, Fla. (223% increase)
9. Miami (220% increase)
10. Austin, Texas (209% increase)
11. Portland, Ore. (207% increase)
12. Phoenix (206% increase)
13. Denver (204% increase)

Several cities saw slower growth in home values, according to Clever:

1. Cleveland (60% increase)
2. Detroit (62% increase)
3. Memphis, Tenn. (72% increase)
4. Chicago (73% increase)
5. Hartford, Conn. (87% increase)
6. Cincinnati (88% increase)
7. Birmingham, Ala. (90% increase)
8. St. Louis (98% increase)

Over the same time period, the national average increased 156% – or roughly 2.5 times – from $127,215 to $325,677, according to Clever’s full report.

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