I plan to buy real estate in California, USA, and want to know the housing price trends in California.

The following content comes from Meifangba: Moody's Analytics predicts that by December 2016, house prices will rise in all 20 metropolitan areas in the United States, including Tampa, Florida/ St. Petersburg's house prices rose the most, up to 8.7%

According to Money magazine, based on the S&P/Case-Shiller House Price Index (S&P

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Index), Moody's Analytics predicts that by December 2016, housing prices in 20 U.S. metropolitan areas will have increased at different rates compared with the same period last year, with Tampa/St. Petersburg leading the way with an 8.7% increase.

First, Houston’s housing prices increased the lowest, at only 0.9%.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida, is a pair of twin cities where Moody's predicts the strongest home price growth. Part of the reason is that home prices here haven't gone up yet and the economic fundamentals here are strong. Moody's said that current housing prices in these two cities are still low, and based on long-term trends, current prices are 10% lower than they should be.

Seattle, which has the second-highest increase, has seen its housing prices almost reach the peak before the last financial crisis in the United States. Due to the increase in income, it is expected that housing prices in Seattle will continue to increase. In addition, the increase in job opportunities in many enterprises or companies will attract a group of American families to settle in Seattle.

Oakland, California, is also expected to have a 7.7% increase.

Andres Carbacho-Burgos, senior economist at Moody's Analytics, said San Diego's 5.2% increase was solid. Although he also noted that revenue growth in San Diego has not been the best of times.

The Washington DC area, the capital of the United States, has an increase of only 1.6%. Since the federal government is the main employer in the area, the downsizing of federal government agencies directly affects the growth rate of housing prices in the capital.

Houston’s home price growth was the lowest, ranking last among the 20 metropolitan areas at 0.9%, because the city’s economy relies on the energy industry. When crude oil prices are weak, home values ??are also depressed. If Houstonians have any complaints, they have no one to blame but the plummeting price of oil.

The forecasts for housing price growth in some U.S. cities are as follows:

Tampa/St. Petersburg 8.7%; Seattle 8.3%

Oakland, California 7.7%; Phoenix 7.5%

Denver 6.7%; Baltimore 6.0%

Miami 5.6%; San Diego 5.2%

Chicago 5.0%; Atlanta 4.8%

Minneapolis/Saint Paul 4.5%; Los Angeles 4.1%

New York City 3.9%; Dallas 3.5%

Washington, D.C. 1.6%; Houston 0.9%

< p>In fact, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller Index, from a national perspective, housing prices in the 20 largest cities in the United States increased by 5.7% in January 2016 compared with the same period last year. An increase of 5.4% compared with the same period last year.

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