District of Columbia in 2008 home price index and building permits for one year

FHFA annual index 2007 to 2008
Permits in 2008

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The FHFA annual house price index for District of Columbia decreased by 5.8% from 2007 to 2008. In the same years, the index for the United States decreased by 4.5%. Building permits in the state authorized 536 housing units in 2008. 248 of the units are in buildings with one unit.

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.
Source: Federal Housing Finance Agency, FHFA House Price Index, "What does the FHFA HPI® represent?". The site copied the text on 2 Oct 2026.

FHFA about the annual indexes of small areas: We use the all-transactions data but construct indexes on a yearly basis to provide data for very small geographic areas like counties, ZIP codes, and census tracts. FHFA FAQs, question 5

FHFA's name for the file of this index: Counties (Developmental Index; Not Seasonally Adjusted). FHFA revises earlier values of its index in each period: FHFA FAQs, question 13.

Annual index through 2025, from the FHFA release of 31 Mar 2026.

Counties in 2008

Counties of District of Columbia in 2008, by name: change of the FHFA annual county index from 2007 to 2008, and housing units authorized in 2008
County	Index change	Units authorized	In buildings with 1 unit
District of Columbia	−5.8%	536	248

"n/a": FHFA has no county index value for one of the two years.

Building permits by year

Housing units authorized in District of Columbia by year, 1995 to 2025

5,000

Units in buildings with 1 unit
Units in buildings with 2 or more units

Units for each year

Housing units authorized by building permits in District of Columbia, by year
Year	All units	1 unit	2 or more units
2025	1,591	181	1,410
2024	1,737	146	1,591
2023	3,020	166	2,854
2022	7,705	409	7,296
2021	4,740	376	4,364
2020	7,370	139	7,231
2019	5,945	168	5,777
2018	4,615	112	4,503
2017	6,037	352	5,685
2016	4,690	336	4,354
2015	4,956	255	4,701
2014	4,189	288	3,901
2013	3,255	333	2,922
2012	3,823	271	3,552
2011	4,612	227	4,385
2010	739	177	562
2009	1,126	151	975
2008	536	248	288
2007	1,910	576	1,334
2006	2,105	126	1,979
2005	2,860	125	2,735
2004	1,936	226	1,710
2003	1,427	152	1,275
2002	1,591	383	1,208
2001	896	131	765
2000	806	187	619
1999	683	319	364
1998	429	255	174
1997	15	11	4
1996	0	0	0
1995	35	35	0

Sources: Federal Housing Finance Agency, annual house price indexes for states and counties, release of March 31, 2026. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, annual state and county files.