What are the housing market predictions in different US Metro areas for 2022? Where should you look to sell? Where should you look to buy? That’s what we’re gonna talk about here. My name is Eric Sztanyo from Keller Williams Realty and team Sztanyo.com, where we are helping you find your home and strengthen your family. I hope you are having an amazing 2022. I hope you’ve had a chance to review your last year and maybe set some goals for yourself in the new year. If you haven’t watched the video already, we recently did a video on the housing market predictions and forecast for 2022. It’s got a lot of good data in it. If you are looking to buy or sell in 2022, you’re gonna wanna watch that video. So, you know, what’s probably going to happen coming up. Spoiler alert, we’re still gonna see a lot of demand from buyers.
We’re maybe gonna get a little bit more inventory from sellers. But if you’re a seller, it’s still another good time, a good year to sell. You’re gonna see more appreciation. You could cash out on some of that equity. If you’re a buyer, it’s still gonna be a challenge. Maybe not as challenging as to 2021, but still difficult.
Now, while I work in the Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky area, I know a lot of you are watching these videos from all across the country. Thank you for watching, liking and subscribing. And so I wanted to do a quick breakdown on what are some of the Metro housing predictions in 2022. In terms of the sales growth? Is it gonna go up or down? And what we’re seeing and I’m talking to a lot of you out there about this, some of you from California, or some of you from New York or the East coast where people are leaving those states and maybe more so in 2022 and 2021, we saw in this last year, things are happening from maybe a political standpoint that are driving some of these trends across the country.
2022 Metro Housing Market Predictions
And so let’s look into some of these different Metro areas and what’s gonna be predicted in 2022. So this is from the same article we did in the last video. It’s from realtor.com, looking at some of the national housing market predictions. And what I wanna look at as we scroll down here are just some of the cities that stand out from a large, maybe even a double digit percentage growth in 2022, and what’s expected to happen. And also wanna look at some of these Metro areas that have a negative growth that their sales growth is actually predicted to go down in 2022.
And so one of the things that stand out for me on the Metro housing market predictions, and I’m not gonna look at every city across it, I’m gonna look particularly around the Cincinnati area, maybe Ohio, maybe Kentucky, Indiana as well. So you can get a feel of what’s happening. This people are kind of leaving the coast a little bit and looking at more of these Midwest affordable areas. Again, if you’re looking at our last video that we did in terms of forecast for 2022, you know that affordability is still a big issue for buyers, especially first time home buyers. So we wanna get a feel for these different cities and how that’s gonna impact affordability.
So we’re just gonna go through this list and I wanna show you some cities that stand out to me personally.
first on the list, Akron, Ohio housing market predictions is to have 11.4% year over year sales growth for 2022. Here’s, Albany, New York negative 0.9%. Gonna keep scrolling down here. Next one that stands out to me here is Bakersfield, California, which is predicted to see a negative 4.2% sales growth on the year. There’s a lot of things that go into sales, growth, sales appreciation, but on the bigger macro levels, what you’re talking about is how is the economy? Are people moving into or out of the area? Those are some of the biggest drivers. And what we’re seeing as we continue to scroll down this list, particularly I saw from California, a lot of people are leaving California for a variety of reasons, I’m sure. But what you’re seeing is that sales growth is predicted to go down and a lot of these different California metros.
The next one housing market predictions that stands out to me, that’s near and dear to my heart is the Cincinnati, Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana. But Cincinnati region is predicted to go up 7.9% next year. Cleveland right below at 7.8%. So again, 2 Ohio cities expected to see not quite double digit, but if you look at this entire list, very solid sales growth in 2022.
Next big one, right below. It’s Columbus, Ohio, which is about two hours here from Cincinnati. That’s where Ohio state university is the capital of Ohio expected to see 13.7% sales growth in 2022. Dayton, Ohio, which is about one hour north of Cincinnati. And if you know where a lot of the growth is happening in the Cincinnati area, a lot of it is on the north side, cuz that’s where there’s room to grow from a standpoint. And as a Dayton, Metro kind of spans south and the Cincinnati Metro spans north, it’s kind of becoming a almost one large Metro. It’s not there yet, but it’s growing that way and Dayton’s expected to see 10.7% sales growth in 2022.
All right, we’ve mentioned California seen some negative sales growth. Here’s another one in Hartford, Connecticut, down 2.9%. Los Angeles, California Metro area down 1.6%, expected in 2022. Here’s another Midwest city, Kansas city, planning to see double digit growth, 11%. Indianapolis, Indiana, expected to see 14.8%. People are leaving coasts and they’re moving to the Midwest. Going down the list here. New Haven, Milford, Connecticut down negative 1.8%. Thousand Oaks Ventura, California down 2.2%. New York Newark Jersey city, Metro area down negative 3%, predicted for 2022.
Here’s a big one that stands out. Salt lake city, Utah. A lot of people planning to move to Salt lake, 15.2% increase. Here you go again. Massive decrease here. Maybe the biggest I’ve seen. San Francisco, California down negative 5.2%. San Jose, California down negative 4%. A lot of those people are moving to Spokane, Washington, planning to be up 12.8%. Here’s another Ohio city, Toledo, Ohio planning to go up 11%. A lot of growth happening in Ohio anticipated in 2022. Here’s another one, Youngstown, Ohio planning to be up 7.3%. And I missed this one previously, but Louisville, Kentucky, which is just about an hour south of Cincinnati, Southwest planning to be up 7.3% in 2022.
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So there you have it. If you are thinking of moving states and moving maybe across the country, you can see there’s a big shift happening. A lot of people are leaving, moving out of these more coastal states, both in California and maybe in the Northeast United States. A lot of people to the Midwest. A lot of strong growth is predicted in the Ohio, Kentucky Indiana region. So if you are thinking of moving to the Cincinnati area, you can know that yes, even though prices are higher than they have been historically with a lot of growth that’s coming in, you could probably anticipate that, that growth in the median sales price of a home is expected to continue in the years to come.
So I hope this video was helpful for you as you get a feel of kind of what’s happening across the US. Maybe just a quick look and overview look, not a ton of details here. This shouldn’t be your only data point when making a decision about moving, but it’s something to consider on this channel. We’ve done a lot of videos about the Cincinnati area. So if you’re looking to move to this area, watch our pros and cons video. Watch our where to live video, watch our taxes video here. Just to get a feel for what it’s like to live in Cincinnati or Northern Kentucky. As always, I would love to help you find your home. We believe that home is where families grow strong together. If you wanna work with us, email me directly at Eric.Sztanyo@kw.com. Would love to hear from you. Thank you guys so much.