Home prices growing more than twice as fast as inflation

Since 1996, prices for single-family homes in Massachusetts have more than quadrupled. If they instead increased at the national rate of inflation, the median sale price last year would have been about $308,000.

Hypothetical sale prices calculated by multiplying actual 1996 median price by R-CPI-U-US inflation index for that year.
Chart: Chris Lisinski/CommonWealth BeaconSource: The Warren Group; Bureau of Labor Statistics Created with Datawrapper