#zillow-home-value-index

#zillow-home-value-index

Home values in two Central New York counties grew at some of the fastest rates in the nation in December, according to data from Zillow. Home values in Oneida County increased more than 7.1% in December, when compared with a year earlier. That ranked No. 8 nationwide among the country's 500 most populous counties. In Onondaga County, home values rose over 5.5%, ranking the county 20th in the U.S. for home value growth.

Based on our analysis of the Zillow Home Value Index, U.S. home prices are up just 0.1% year over year from December 2024 to December 2025. That marks a deceleration from the +2.6% growth rate a year earlier-though national price growth has recently stabilized, ticking slightly higher from a low of -0.01% in August 2025. In the first half of 2025, the number of major metro-area housing markets seeing year-over-year declines climbed. That count has since pretty much stopped ticking up.

National home prices rose 0.01% year over year from September 2024 to September 2025, according to the Zillow Home Value Index reading published on October 16-decelerated from the 2.4% year-over-year rate from September 2023 to September 2024. This year, the number of major metro-area housing markets seeing year-over-year declines has climbed. -> 31 of the nation's 300 largest housing markets (10% of markets) had a falling year-over-year reading from January 2024 to January 2025.