SUN VALLEY HOUSING MARKET INFORMATION With 1,771 people, 574 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $1,016,177, Sun Valley house prices are not only among the most expensive in Idaho, Sun Valley 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 Sun Valley, accounting for 43.67% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Sun Valley include large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 27.81%), duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 24.33%), and a few row houses and other attached homes ( 3.40%). Owner-occupied, three and four bedroom dwellings, primarily in single-family detached homes are the most prevalent type of housing you will see in Sun Valley. Owner-occupied housing accounts for 81.49% of Sun Valley's homes, and 52.18% have either three or four bedrooms, which is average sized relative to America. There is a lot of housing in Sun Valley 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 Sun Valley built between 1940-1969 ( 10.42%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from between 2000 and later ( 8.43%). There's also some housing in Sun Valley built before 1939 ( 1.49%). A decent proportion of the Sun Valley housing stock is seasonally occupied. That is, homes and condos in Sun Valley 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 Sun Valley housing market speaks to its popularity as a vacation location of choice. SUN VALLEY HOME APPRECIATION RATES In the last 10 years, Sun Valley has experienced some of the highest home appreciation rates of any community in the nation. Sun Valley real estate appreciated 122.88% over the last ten years, which is an average annual home appreciation rate of 8.34%, putting Sun Valley in the top 20% nationally for real estate appreciation. If you are a home buyer or real estate investor, Sun Valley definitely has a track record of being one of the best long term real estate investments in America through the last ten years. Over the last year, Sun Valley appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Sun Valley'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 Sun Valley were at 0.88%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of 3.57%. Relative to Idaho, our data show that Sun Valley's latest annual appreciation rate is lower than 50% of the other cities and towns in Idaho.