Account ClosedFor the most part in history, market trends seem to indicate that the housing costs trend upward as do rising interest rates except in the early 1980's as described in by the Urban institute for research on this website:  https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/when-interest-rates-go-healthy-economy-history-says-home-prices-will-riseThe problem was in the 1980's as you can see where although in 1981 housing prices went up, interest rates went up substantially more so the costs of ownership was 4X's worse then someone in 2016.   

Trending up?

How does the trend in the demand curve look?

I don't get too caught up in national market forces as they are highly unpredictable but there seems to be one undeniable trend that is hard to ignore and that is the continued and growing lack of supply of affordable housing. 

I'm a big fan of data and came across this study and thought it was good news for us in case anyone else wanted to read it to forecast trends.

As you pull back layers siding, electrical, sheetrock, and flooring there seems to be a trend of "always something else to repair".

Terry Lao I notice that the trend is new listing price have to be listed higher than last sold comp price.

I'd prefer to look at this chart over several years and find lasting trends, if there are any.

You'll see a trend emerging.

Take a look at the trend of their property value assessments over the past five years.