KETCHUM HOUSING MARKET INFORMATION With 3,611 people, 2,132 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $723,877, Ketchum house prices are not only among the most expensive in Idaho, Ketchum real estate also is some of the most expensive in all of America. Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Ketchum, accounting for 41.14% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Ketchum include large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 30.30%), duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 23.05%), and a few row houses and other attached homes ( 5.51%). Dwellings in Ketchum tend to be quite small (one, two, or no bedrooms) and owner occupied. In fact, 51.06% of the homes in Ketchum have two or fewer bedrooms. There is a lot of housing in Ketchum built from 1970 to 1999 so parts of town may have that "Brady Bunch" look of homes popular in the '70s and early '80s, although some of these houses were built up through the early '90s as well. There is also a lot of housing in Ketchum built between 2000 and later ( 22.20%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from between 1940-1969 ( 16.06%). A decent proportion of the Ketchum housing stock is seasonally occupied. That is, homes and condos in Ketchum are occupied by people for a portion of the year - mainly for vacation purposes - and then locked up and left unoccupied for the remainder of the year as owners return to their primary residences. This characteristic of the Ketchum housing market speaks to its popularity as a vacation location of choice. KETCHUM HOME APPRECIATION RATES Appreciation rates for homes in Ketchum have been tracking above average for the last ten years, according to 蘑菇视频 data. The cumulative appreciation rate over the ten years has been 109.84%, which ranks in the top 30% nationwide. This equates to an annual average Ketchum house appreciation rate of 7.69%. Over the last year, Ketchum appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Ketchum's appreciation rate has been 2.68%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, 蘑菇视频's data show that house appreciation rates in Ketchum were at 0.88%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of 3.57%. Relative to Idaho, our data show that Ketchum's latest annual appreciation rate is lower than 70% of the other cities and towns in Idaho.