US house prices: +1.8% in August 2026, but -0.1% on the month

Cotality puts US single-family home prices at +1.8% year on year in August 2026, while the month itself turned negative at -0.1% from July.

The facts

• Cotality (formerly CoreLogic) single-family price index, distressed sales included: +1.8% year on year in August 2026, after July's 1.6%.
• Month on month: -0.1% in August; the pre-pandemic August average is +0.3%.
• San Francisco metropolitan area: +7.0% year on year, but -2.7% three-month momentum.

What it means for your money

• The entry price is still rising year on year. The momentum is not: +1.8% annually, but -0.1% in August alone.
• Purchase price and direction: the annual rate rises while recent momentum falls — -0.1% on the month against a pre-pandemic +0.3%, and San Francisco at +7.0% yearly with -2.7% over three months. The annual number alone misdirects.
• Price level: the Glopra United States data shows 2,411 USD/m² nationally in August 2026, from a large American property listing portal via the central bank database. Asking price, not transaction price, not seasonally adjusted, above final purchase prices.
• Resale and liquidity for someone already holding there: with annual rates by state spanning +6.8% to -0.7%, exit value turns on which state the property sits in, not on the national figure.

What to watch

• No dollar price level (the measure is an index), no transaction counts, no rents or rental yields and no mortgage rate in the release; the slowing metropolitan areas are not named individually.

Sources: Cotality, US Home Price Insights, August 2026 data, published 6 October 2026 https://www.cotality.com/insights/articles/us-home-price-insights-october-2026

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