The Price of New Houses

$245,100: That is the median sales prices of the new, detached, single-family houses sold in 2012. Here is how that figure compares with median prices in the recent past (in 2012 dollars)...

• The price in 2012 was 7 percent above the $229,100 of 2000.
• The price in 2012 was 15 percent below the $288,800 of 2006 (all-time high).
• The price in 2012 was 6 percent above the $232,200 of 2009 (Great Recession low).

Source: Census Bureau, Characteristics of New Single-Family Houses Sold