Huntington Beach appreciation rates and housing market information

Huntington Beach housing market information

With a population of 189,940, 75,793 total housing units (homes and apartments), and a median house value of $645,751, real estate costs in Huntington Beach are among some of the highest in the nation, although house prices here don't compare to real estate prices in the most expensive California communities.

single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Huntington Beach, accounting for 48.83% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Huntington Beach include large apartment complexes or high rise apartments (21.75%), duplexes, homes converted to apartments, or other small apartment buildings (12.77%), row houses and other attached homes (12.50%), and a few mobile homes or trailers (3.99%).

The most prevalent building size and type in Huntington Beach are three and four bedroom single-family detached homes. The city has a mixture of owners and renters, with 59.02% owning, and 38.36% renting.

There is a lot of housing in Huntington Beach built from 1970-1994, so parts of town may have that "Brady Bunch" look of homes popular in the '70s and early '80s, although some of these houses were built up through the early '90s as well. There is also a lot of housing in Huntington Beach built from 1940-1969 (41.48%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from 1995 and later (4.28%), and some were built from 1939 and earlier (4.28%).

Huntington Beach home appreciation rates

Appreciation rates for homes in Huntington Beach have been tracking above average for the last ten years, according to NeighborhoodScout data. The cumulative appreciation rate over the ten years has been 106.90%, which ranks in the top 20% nationwide. This equates to an annual average Huntington Beach house appreciation rate of 10.69%.

Over the last year, Huntington Beach appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Huntington Beach's appreciation rate has been -13.96%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in Huntington Beach were at -0.83%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of -3.32%.

Notably, Huntington Beach's appreciation rate in the latest quarter is one of the lowest in America.

Relative to California, our data show that Huntington Beach's latest annual appreciation rate is higher than 60% of the other cities and towns in California.

One very important thing to keep in mind is that these are average appreciation rates for the city. Individual neighborhoods within Huntington Beach differ in their investment potential, sometimes by a great deal. Fortunately, you can use NeighborhoodScout to pinpoint the exact neighborhoods in Huntington Beach - or in any city or town - that have the best track record of real estate appreciation, by the latest quarter, the last year, 2 years, 5 years, 10 years, or even since 1990, to assist you in making the best Huntington Beach real estate investment or home purchase decisions.