Source
FHFA House Price Index · vintage 2026 · refresh cadence: quarterly
Cumulative price change over 5 years; equity-build proxy
Direction of better
Higher values are better. Used to rank candidate towns/properties; higher score = stronger fit.
Unit
Values are reported in percent.
Default weight in Investor composite
8% of the Investor composite by default. Users can override this weight in their intake; the displayed score reflects the user's chosen weighting, never a fixed default.
Where the data lives
Tables: municipality_metrics
Columns: price_change_5yr_pct
Input field: appreciation_5yr
JSON-LD example
Every value emitted by ValiFit (in /api/v1, MCP responses, on-page JSON-LD) carries a propertyID set to this metric_id, so AI clients can resolve it back here in one round-trip.
{
"@type": "PropertyValue",
"propertyID": "investor.appreciation_5yr",
"name": "Investor 5-Year Appreciation",
"value": 12.4,
"unitText": "percent",
"additionalProperty": [
{
"@type": "PropertyValue",
"name": "composite",
"value": "Investor"
},
{
"@type": "PropertyValue",
"name": "level",
"value": "city"
},
{
"@type": "PropertyValue",
"name": "direction",
"value": "higher_better"
},
{
"@type": "PropertyValue",
"name": "source_year",
"value": "2026"
},
{
"@type": "PropertyValue",
"name": "fha_safe",
"value": true
}
],
"valueReference": {
"@type": "QuantitativeValue",
"additionalType": "https://valifit.com/catalog/metric",
"identifier": "investor.appreciation_5yr",
"sameAs": "FHFA House Price Index"
},
"mentions": [
{
"@type": "Dataset",
"@id": "https://valifit.com/sources/fhfa-hpi-house-price-index",
"identifier": "FHFA_HPI",
"name": "FHFA House Price Index",
"url": "https://www.fhfa.gov/data/hpi",
"sameAs": "https://www.fhfa.gov/data/hpi",
"creator": {
"@type": "Organization",
"name": "FHFA"
},
"temporalCoverage": "quarterly",
"dateModified": "2026-05-26"
}
]
}For programmatic access
GET /api/v1/catalog/metrics?id=investor.appreciation_5yr
MCP tool: get_catalog with id="investor.appreciation_5yr"