Experts are predicting that some housing markets will boom throughout 2025.
Recently, Realtor.com looked at the 100 largest U.S. metropolitan areas and found 25 places that are expected to do exceptionally well in 2025.
The conclusions were based on data related to both the housing market and the overall U.S. economy.
Realtor.com says this year’s list consists of markets with “moderately affordable homes, abundant inventory — mainly boosted by new construction — and a sizable base of younger families, many with military and international connections.”
Here are the markets where housing is expected to heat up in 2025. The metros are ranked based on the combination of the projected increase in home prices and home sales.
1. Colorado Springs, CO
Projected changes for existing homes in this metropolitan area in 2025:
- Median home sale price: 12.7% increase year over year
- Number of home sales: 27.1 % increase year over year
Earthlings aren’t the only ones knocked out by the beauty of Colorado Springs: There have been more than 300 UFO sightings in the area in the 21st century.
2. Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach, FL
Projected changes for existing homes in this metropolitan area in 2025:
- Median home sale price: 9% increase year over year
- Number of home sales: 24% increase year over year
Miami is the only major U.S. city founded by a woman, a local businesswoman named Julia Tuttle. She did so in the late 18th century by convincing a developer to extend the Florida East Coast Railroad deep into South Florida, where she owned land on which the modern city of Miami is now located.
3. Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC
Projected changes for existing homes in this metropolitan area in 2025:
- Median home sale price: 6.6% increase year over year
- Number of home sales: 23.4% increase year over year
Virginia Beach more than lives up to its name: The city’s stretch of sand rolls on for more than two dozen miles and is the longest pleasure beach in the world.
4. El Paso, TX
Projected changes for existing homes in this metropolitan area in 2025:
- Median home sale price: 8.4% increase year over year
- Number of home sales: 19.3% increase year over year
El Paso is the busiest international border crossing in the world. The Texas city is connected by a bridge across the Rio Grande river — the Paso del Norte — to Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
5. Richmond, VA
Projected changes for existing homes in this metropolitan area in 2025:
- Median home sale price: 6.1% increase year over year
- Number of home sales: 21.6% increase year over year
Next time you pop the top on a cold one, make a toast to Richmond. Canned beer made its debut in Virginia’s capital city in 1935.
6. Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL
Projected changes for existing homes in this metropolitan area in 2025:
- Median home sale price: 12.1% increase year over year
- Number of home sales: 15.2% increase year over year
The city of Orlando, which has more than a dozen theme parks, also is home to more than 100 lakes. One of them — Lake Eola — is actually a huge sinkhole reaching a depth of 80 feet.
7. McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX
Projected changes for existing homes in this metropolitan area in 2025:
- Median home sale price: 7% increase year over year
- Number of home sales: 19.8% increase year over year
McAllen is one of the fastest-growing cities in the United States. It has a reputation as a shopping destination and features nearly 700 restaurants. But the U.S. border city on the Rio Grande might be most renowned as one of the nation’s best spots for birding.
8. Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ
Projected changes for existing homes in this metropolitan area in 2025:
- Median home sale price: 13.2% increase year over year
- Number of home sales: 12.2% increase year over year
For a little more than a decade — up until about 1950 — downtown Phoenix had an underground bowling alley. That’s one way to escape the Arizona heat!
9. Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA
Projected changes for existing homes in this metropolitan area in 2025:
- Median home sale price: 10.2% increase year over year
- Number of home sales: 15.1% increase year over year
Atlanta is home to the world’s busiest airport, Hartsfield-Jackson International. The Georgia state capital is also the birthplace of Coca-Cola, and, not surprisingly, the restaurant that serves the most Coca-Cola by volume, The Varsity, also calls the city home.
10. Greensboro-High Point, NC
Projected changes for existing homes in this metropolitan area in 2025:
- Median home sale price: 7.7% increase year over year
- Number of home sales: 17.3% increase year over year
The Proximity Hotel in Greensboro was the first LEED platinum certified hotel in North America. That is the highest level of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification, a designation issued by the U.S. Green Building Council. So, it puts the hotel at the forefront of sustainability efforts.
The rest of the top 25
Here are the rest of the top 35, with their forecasted increases for median sale price and home sale count:
- Tucson, AZ: 12.4%/12.5%
- Austin-Round Rock-Georgetown, TX: 10.2%/14.5%
- Durham-Chapel Hill, NC: 10.1%/14.1%
- Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC: 8.4%/15.7%
- Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR: 4.8%/18.6%
- Jacksonville, FL: 9.8%/13.5%
- Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL: 9.6%/13.2%
- Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV: 5%/17%
- Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA: 5.1%/16.8%
- Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO: 8%/13.6%
- Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL: 10.3%/10.6%
- Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL: 11.8%/9.1%
- Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ: 8%/12.3%
- Columbia, SC: 8.2%/12.1%
- Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA: 8.8%/11.4%
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