WASHINGTON – There’s a big sign that the local economy is rebounding.
John McClain, senior fellow at George Mason University and deputy director of the Center for Regional Analysis, said the median price of a home in the D.C. area has gone up quite a bit in the past year, and the region now can be classified as firmly in recovery.
“We’ve had generally price increases metro-wide, with some ups and downs here and there, but over the last two years, it’s been trending upward,” McClain said Wednesday morning on ²ÝÝ®´«Ã½.
McClain says home prices are going up in areas outside of the Beltway — not just in the inner suburbs.
“We’re also beginning to see stability in more parts of the region,” McClain says. “It had been been sort of just the close-in areas — as we’ve talked about sometimes before — inside the Beltway.”
Hear just how much home prices have risen in the area and listen to more of McClain’s analysis in the audio to the right.
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