NHAR is attempting to stress the importance of looking at long-term real estate trends, rather than the media-driven fascination with individual, year-over-year sales and price statistics.  With that in mind, we've compiled statewide and county data beginning in 1998, when the statewide median price for a single-family residential home was $127,500.  That number rose to its peak of $270,000 in 2005, a remarkable 112 percent increase (a 16 percent per year average increase), since which time we've seen the modest median price declines (down 1.9 percent in 2006 and 1.6 percent in 2007) that seem more dramatic primarily because of the booming market in the seven years prior.

     Each of the following sheets includes the statewide numbers from 1998 to 2007, along with similarly formatted data for individual counties.  We hope this helps to paint a picture of the market that is more encouraging for New Hampshire than what national headlines might lead one to believe, but most importantly it is a picture that is based in actual data rather than speculation.