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Home prices in Iowa since you bought
A home in Iowa bought 10 years ago is worth about 70.6% more today if it kept pace with its state, about 5.5% a year (2016 Q2 to 2026 Q2). The figures are the federal FHFA House Price Index, quarterly, latest 2026 Q2.
Appreciation over 1, 5, 10 and 20 years
| Window | Change | Per year | $300,000 then is now | Periods |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 year | +3.2% | +3.2% | $309,675 | 2025 Q2 → 2026 Q2 |
| 5 years | +37.4% | +6.6% | $412,317 | 2021 Q2 → 2026 Q2 |
| 10 years | +70.6% | +5.5% | $511,831 | 2016 Q2 → 2026 Q2 |
| 20 years | +93.5% | +3.4% | $580,634 | 2006 Q2 → 2026 Q2 |
Informational only, not an appraisal. This is the area’s average from repeat sales on conforming mortgages; it knows nothing about any particular house.
How Iowa compares
| Area | 1 yr | 5 yr | 10 yr | 20 yr |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa | +3.2% | +37.4% | +70.6% | +93.5% |
| United States | +3.0% | +41.3% | +93.3% | +93.5% |
Windows end at each series’ own latest period; the annual county and ZIP indexes end a few quarters before the quarterly state and metro ones.
What is your home worth since you bought it?
The home value since purchase calculator takes your purchase price, month, year and ZIP and applies the smallest area’s index, falling back to the state when the ZIP has no data.
Metro areas in Iowa
Counties in Iowa
- Adair County
- Adams County
- Allamakee County
- Appanoose County
- Audubon County
- Benton County
- Black Hawk County
- Boone County
- Bremer County
- Buchanan County
- Buena Vista County
- Butler County
- Calhoun County
- Carroll County
- Cass County
- Cedar County
- Cerro Gordo County
- Cherokee County
- Chickasaw County
- Clarke County
- Clay County
- Clayton County
- Clinton County
- Crawford County
- Dallas County
- Davis County
- Decatur County
- Delaware County
- Des Moines County
- Dickinson County
- Dubuque County
- Emmet County
- Fayette County
- Floyd County
- Franklin County
- Fremont County
- Greene County
- Grundy County
- Guthrie County
- Hamilton County
- Hancock County
- Hardin County
- Harrison County
- Henry County
- Howard County
- Humboldt County
- Ida County
- Iowa County
- Jackson County
- Jasper County
- Jefferson County
- Johnson County
- Jones County
- Keokuk County
- Kossuth County
- Lee County
- Linn County
- Louisa County
- Lucas County
- Lyon County
- Madison County
- Mahaska County
- Marion County
- Marshall County
- Mills County
- Mitchell County
- Monona County
- Monroe County
- Montgomery County
- Muscatine County
- Obrien County
- Osceola County
- Page County
- Palo Alto County
- Plymouth County
- Pocahontas County
- Polk County
- Pottawattamie County
- Poweshiek County
- Ringgold County
- Sac County
- Scott County
- Shelby County
- Sioux County
- Story County
- Tama County
- Taylor County
- Union County
- Van Buren County
- Wapello County
- Warren County
- Washington County
- Wayne County
- Webster County
- Winnebago County
- Winneshiek County
- Woodbury County
- Worth County
- Wright County
Where these figures come from
Series. FHFA HPI, traditional / all-transactions / quarterly, NSA, State IA, from the FHFA House Price Index datasets. Each change is the index at the end of the window divided by the index at its start, ending at the latest published period (2026 Q2). Per-year figures are compound annual rates. Snapshot vintage: master file through 2026 Q2.
What it leaves out. The index is estimated from repeat sales and appraisals on mortgages bought or guaranteed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, so cash, jumbo, FHA and VA purchases are not in it. It tracks the area, not any house: renovations, condition and lot are invisible to it.
Data pulled 2026-09-28. FHFA publishes state and metro indexes quarterly and county and ZIP indexes annually; this page updates with each pull.