Average home sale price · 2008 Verified
$304,200in April 2008 — about $472,893 in today's money.
- Price in 2008$304,200
- Same money today$472,893
- Actual price now · January 2026$514,600
- Change since 2008+69%
Priced in working time
- Work to buy in 2008 · the federal minimum wage was $5.85/hour52,000 hours
- Work to buy today · at $7.25/hour (2026)70,979 hours
Observed price divided by the observed wage for the same year — nothing here is back-cast. See the minimum wage record →
Price history
Record & method
This is an observed price. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics recorded it in April 2008; we have not adjusted the figure.
- Source
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics via FRED. Public domain.
- Series
- ASPUS
- Observed
- April 2008
- Coverage
- January 1963 – January 2026
- Adjusted by
- CPIAUCNS · 214.823 → 333.952 (June 2026)
- License
- Public domain