Where are home prices headed in your area?
Here are the one-, three- and five-year appreciation rates for more than 300 metropolitan areas across the United States.
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For increases from the median in 2003 to the median in 2004, Global Insight is predicting the top areas will be better dispersed across the country, split about evenly between coastal and noncoastal areas.

Cities such as Santa Fe, N.M., Denver and Pittsburgh will be near the top of the pack with price increases of about 4%, predicts Global Insight. The firm also says that some of the boom regions in 2003 will be laggards in 2004. Areas such as Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach, for example, which recorded increases of about 9% from 2002 to 2003, will barely budge in 2004.

Some areas that have traditionally been in the forefront of rising prices have finally slowed down. San Francisco has the highest median home price, about $576,000, and also has one of the highest five-year percentage changes, at about 63%. But prices there rose only about 3% from 2002 to 2003. Likewise, Boston's wild price increases of the past five years, totaling 66%, appear to have calmed down.