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Is Housing in Miami Still Undervalued?

by Peter Thomas Ricci

The housing market has seen strong price gains through much of 2013, but has it made up all that lost ground from the downturn?

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Let’s start with the good news: there’s no way that the national housing market is in a bubble. According to the latest Bubble Watch from Trulia, home prices are still 4 percent undervalued to their fundamental level in 2013’s four quarter; for comparison’s sake, home prices were 39 percent overvalued in the first quarter of 2006.

But what about here in Miami? Well, that’s where things become a bit more nuanced. Home prices in the Magic City, Trulia reports, are still 4 percent undervalued, though again, asking prices were up a robust 12.4 percent in Trulia’s latest Price Monitor, so recovery is certainly on the way.

Piper Rothan, a Realtor with The Keyes Company in Miami, said that though pricing is ultimately an exercise in relativity, with buyer demand determining what a home will be priced at, she had seen prices rising rapidly in recent months.

“I think the prices are going up at a rate that’s a little alarming,” she said. “[However], we’re losing that window time where we had little inventory, and I think that’s going to put a little bit of a damper on values.”

So where does our market compare with other large metro areas? See our graph below to find out:

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