The Real Estate Wonk: B'more and 'burbs: Prices before, during, after the boom - Baltimore Sun reporter Jamie Smith Hopkins blogs about the local housing market

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September 21, 2008

B'more and 'burbs: Prices before, during, after the boom

A look at average home sale prices in the last 10 years in Baltimore City and surrounding suburbs.

Read on for enough charts and numbers to warm any wonk's heart.

PRICE STATS:

Biggest change in average price, 2000-2005: Howard County, up 104 percent

Smallest change in average price, 2000-2005: Harford County, up 79 percent

Biggest change in average price, 2005-2007: Baltimore City, up 13 percent

Smallest change in average price, 2005-2007: Carroll County, up 2 percent

You can find the numbers I used at Metropolitan Regional Information Systems' stats page.

Posted by Jamie Smith Hopkins at 3:02 AM | Permalink | Comments (3)
Categories: Number-crunching

Comments

* Jamie - does allow personal attackes towards people who don't agree with her.

I live and sell in the worst perfoming zip code in the City, but I Believe! Do you?

Posted by: Dunn | September 23, 2008 5:27 PM

Christian, the only comments I've ever censored for personal attacks were against you.

I will always lean toward putting up a comment because I'm against censorship on principle. Someone has to cross into pretty mean name-calling before I'll step in. (And obviously that's a judgment call, so my definition may not match up with yours.)

You must recognize that if you post comments here, you might get responses from people who disagree strongly with you. It comes with the territory, just as you are welcome to say your piece about this blog.

Posted by: Jamie Smith Hopkins | September 23, 2008 6:45 PM

Dunn,

Just so you know, I got an e-mail from Jamie wherein she told me she was "censoring" me for attacking YOU!

Posted by: Anon | September 24, 2008 8:56 AM

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About Jamie Smith Hopkins

Jamie Smith Hopkins, a Baltimore Sun reporter since 1999, writes about the regional economy. Her reporting on the housing market has won national and local awards. Hopkins is a Columbia native and has lived in Maryland all her life, save for 10 months spent covering schools in Ames, Iowa.
She trained to become a wonk by spending large chunks of time as a geek and an insufferable know-it-all.
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