Home-Price Growth Fastest in 7 Years, CoreLogic Says

As housing inventory remains low, prices continue to rise, posting the fastest year-over-year growth since 2006, according to data released Tuesday.

Home prices, including distressed sales, rose 2.6 percent in May and were up 12.2 percent from a year earlier, the largest annual growth since February 2006, according to CoreLogic, an Irvine, Calif.-based analysis firm. Excluding short sales and other distressed properties, prices rose 2.3 percent in May and were up 11.6 percent from the year-earlier period.

"As we approach the halfway point of 2013, home prices continue to respond positively to the reductions in home inventory thus far," said Mark Fleming, CoreLogic's chief economist.

Annual price growth, including distressed properties, was seen in almost every state with Nevada seeing the largest year-over-year price growth at 26 percent.

Economists say the housing market won't sustain outsized gains. The increasing prices entice sellers to place their homes on the market, which increases inventory. Also, new construction of homes is on the rise.

"The rise in prices is a signal to the market to supply more housing. This is exactly what we expect to happen over the next several years," TD Economics analysts wrote in a recent research note.

TD analysts expect year-over-year growth in home prices to slow to below 4 percent next year.

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