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Metropolitan area
Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Port Royal, SC
South Carolina · 2 counties · 242,966 residents (2025 est.)
FHFA quarterly index through 2026 Q2Annual index 1975–2025Permits through August 2026
Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Port Royal (100 = first year)United States, rebased to the same startNBER recession
FHFA notes: The FHFA HPI is a broad measure of the movement of single-family house prices. The FHFA HPI is a weighted, repeat-sales index, meaning that it measures average price changes in repeat sales or refinancings on the same properties. The line above is FHFA's standard quarterly all-transactions index for the metropolitan area; the comparison table below uses FHFA's annual CBSA index, which FHFA describes as developmental. The index does not give a dollar value for any home.
The Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Port Royal, SC metropolitan area covers 2 counties. Its FHFA house price index, starting in 1975, stood at 996 in 2025, +895.8% above the base of 100.
The standard quarterly index for the area, published through 2026 Q2, is +2.7% on a year earlier and +0.9% on the previous quarter.
Over the ten years to 2025 the annual index rose +121.5% (+8.3% a year), well above South Carolina at +104.3% and well above the national +85.0%.
From a 2007 peak the index fell −29.4% to 2013, regaining the peak in 2020.
Across its counties, 2,449 housing units were authorised in the 12 months to August 2026, 10.1 per 1,000 residents, −28.8% on the previous 12 months.
+2.7%year to 2026 Q2, quarterly indexUS +3.0%
+5.1%1 year, 2024–2025US +2.8%
+74.0%5 yearsUS +47.0%
+121.5%10 years+8.3% a year annualised
+193.6%since 2000US +158.3%
2,449units permitted, 12 months10.1 per 1,000 residents
FHFA annual all-transactions indexes over identical years.
Decade by decade
Decade
Change
United States
1980s (1980–1990)
+52.7%
+68.2%
1990s (1990–2000)
+67.2%
+33.9%
2000s (2000–2010)
+34.7%
+29.7%
2010s (2010–2020)
+25.2%
+35.5%
2020s so far (2020–2025)
+74.0%
+47.0%
FHFA reports each index with a value of 100 in its base period, the first year the area has enough transactions (1975 here). A decade's change is the index at the end of the decade divided by the index at the start, so it does not depend on the base year; the United States column covers the same years. Decades before 1975 are not shown.
Peak-to-low declines
Peak
Low
Decline
Peak regained
2007
2013
−29.4%
2020
1975
1976
−21.9%
1978
Building permits across the area
Housing units authorised in the area's 2 counties (OMB July 2023 delineations), summed from county files.
Housing units authorised in the Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Port Royal, SC area by month, latest 12 monthssingle-family2+ unit buildings
Housing units authorised in the Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Port Royal, SC area by month, latest 60 monthssingle-family2+ unit buildings
Housing units authorised in the Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Port Royal, SC area by year, 1995–2025single-family2+ unit buildings
Permits, 12 months to August 2026
This area
South Carolina
United States
Housing units authorised
2,449
46,439
1,418,086
Units per 1,000 residents
10.1
8.3
4.1
Single-family share
99%
86%
63%
Change on previous 12 months
−28.8%
+1.3%
−0.1%
Counties in the area
Ranked by ten-year change in FHFA's county index to 2025; permits are the latest 12 months.
How much have home values in the Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Port Royal, SC area risen over 10 years?
The FHFA annual index rose +121.5% between 2015 and 2025, about +8.3% a year. Over 20 years: +106.3%; since 2000: +193.6%. The quarterly index is +2.7% on a year earlier as of 2026 Q2.
Which counties in the Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Port Royal, SC area rose most?
By ten-year change to 2025: Beaufort County (+121.6%) and Jasper County (+106.2%).
What happened to Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Port Royal, SC prices after 2007?
The index peaked in 2007, fell −29.4% to 2013 and regained the peak in 2020. Nationally: −21.3% from 2007 to 2012.
How many homes are being built in the Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Port Royal, SC area?
2,449 housing units were authorised across the area's counties in the 12 months to August 2026, 99% of them single-family, 10.1 per 1,000 residents.
Where does this data come from?
FHFA's annual CBSA house price index (developmental, updated March 31, 2026) and its standard quarterly metropolitan index; Census Bureau building permits summed over member counties (OMB July 2023 delineations) through August 2026; vintage 2025 population estimates.
Provenance
Index: Federal Housing Finance Agency, annual house price index for core based statistical areas (all-transactions, developmental), last updated March 31, 2026, values 1975–2025; quarterly metropolitan area index (all-transactions) through 2026 Q2. Permits: Census Bureau Building Permits Survey county files through August 2026, summed over member counties from OMB's July 2023 delineations. Population: Census Bureau vintage 2025 estimates. Public domain. Corrections · FHFA HPI datasets.