10 US cities where home values are actually increasing

• Realtor.com ranked the 10 US cities where home values have increased the most since 2019.

• The company found that the cities are mostly located in the South and Northeast.

• A Tennessee boomtown leads the way, with average home values up $189,865 since 2019.

If you’ve checked your home’s estimated value on a real-estate listing site like Realtor.com or Zillow lately, you may have noticed it dip.

You’re not alone. In cities across the country, high mortgage rates and economic uncertainty have cooled buyer demand, slowing price growth and knocking the value of some homes down by thousands of dollars.

However, some cities are doing better than others. Realtor.com has identified 10 metros, mostly located in the South and Northeast, where home values have experienced the largest double-digit gains since 2019.

To find them, Realtor.com looked at the top 100 US metros and calculated the average change in a home’s value between October 2019 and October 2025 in each city, then compared that to the average 2019 value to determine the percentage difference.

Here are the 10 cities where home values have climbed the most since 2019, according to Realtor.com.

Business Insider included each city’s percentage change in home values and average dollar change since October 2019, as well as the median home sale price as of October 2025 using data from Realtor.com.

10. Chattanooga, Tennessee – Georgia

• Percentage change in home values since 2019: 72.9%

• Average amount of change since October 2019: $149,470

• Median listing price as of October 2025: $399,950

9. Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, North Carolina -South Carolina

• Percentage change in home values since 2019: 73.1%

• Average amount of change since October 2019: $206,597

• Median listing price as of October 2025: $438,348

8. New Haven, Connecticut

• Percentage change in home values since 2019: 73.8%

• Average amount of change since October 2019: $209,131

• Median listing price as of October 2025: $459,500

7. Rochester, New York

• Percentage change in home values since 2019: 75.2%

• Average amount of change since October 2019: $133,699

• Median listing price as of October 2025: $267,950

6. Portland-South Portland, Maine

• Percentage change in home values since 2019: 75.7%

• Average amount of change since October 2019: $289,366

• Median listing price as of October 2025: $599,000

5. Syracuse, New York

• Percentage change in home values since 2019: 77.6%

• Average amount of change since October 2019: $131,816

• Median listing price as of October 2025: $297,450

4. Scranton-Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania

• Percentage change in home values since 2019: 78.4%

• Average amount of change since October 2019: $89,803

• Median listing price as of October 2025: $262,350