Home appreciation in Bay City, MI

Over the five years ending 2025, home prices in Bay City, MI grew an average of 10.2% a year.

Price growth at a glance

1-year

+5.1%

2025 over 2024. Michigan: +5.7%.

5-year, per year

+10.2%

Average annual growth, 2020 to 2025. Michigan: +9.1%.

10-year, per year

+6.9%

+95.0% in total since 2015. Michigan: +7.4%.

How does your home compare?

Bay City, MI home prices rose 95.0% over the ten years to 2025, while its ZIP codes ranged from +68.2% to +109.0%. Look up your home to see where it ranks among the homes around it.

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How Bay City, MI compares with Michigan

Michigan averaged +9.1% a year, so Bay City, MI grew faster than the state overall. For five-year price growth, Bay City, MI ranks 92nd out of 409 metros nationwide and 3rd out of 16 in Michigan.

Index, 2005 = 100

Bay City, MI and Michigan, quarterly house price index rebased to 100 in 2005.
YearBay City, MIMichigan
2005 Q1100100
2005 Q2100101
2005 Q3102101
2005 Q4101101
2006 Q1102101
2006 Q29899
2006 Q39998
2006 Q410099
2007 Q19998
2007 Q29796
2007 Q39693
2007 Q49793
2008 Q19592
2008 Q29389
2008 Q38785
2008 Q48784
2009 Q19086
2009 Q28683
2009 Q38679
2009 Q48078
2010 Q18176
2010 Q27975
2010 Q38276
2010 Q48376
2011 Q18173
2011 Q28072
2011 Q38073
2011 Q48274
2012 Q18072
2012 Q27972
2012 Q38073
2012 Q48074
2013 Q17975
2013 Q27877
2013 Q37878
2013 Q48079
2014 Q17880
2014 Q27982
2014 Q38284
2014 Q48385
2015 Q18185
2015 Q28387
2015 Q38488
2015 Q48789
2016 Q18389
2016 Q28191
2016 Q38693
2016 Q48494
2017 Q18695
2017 Q28897
2017 Q38699
2017 Q487100
2018 Q189101
2018 Q290104
2018 Q391105
2018 Q492106
2019 Q195107
2019 Q293109
2019 Q395110
2019 Q494111
2020 Q197112
2020 Q299113
2020 Q3101116
2020 Q4104118
2021 Q1106121
2021 Q2112128
2021 Q3118134
2021 Q4122137
2022 Q1125141
2022 Q2131150
2022 Q3136151
2022 Q4132149
2023 Q1136150
2023 Q2141158
2023 Q3142160
2023 Q4145161
2024 Q1147163
2024 Q2158169
2024 Q3156171
2024 Q4159171
2025 Q1156174
2025 Q2160178
2025 Q3166180
2025 Q4168181
2026 Q1165182
2026 Q2168186

Chart through 2026 Q2. Annual growth figures through 2025.

Growth was stronger over the last five years than over the full decade: +6.9% a year over ten years, +95.0% in total.

Over this history, home prices peaked in 2005, fell 21.6% to its 2013 low, and regained the 2005 level in 2021.

The strongest year was 2022 at +14.8%, and the weakest was 2008 at -6.7%.

In 2025 alone the index moved +5.1%, against +5.7% for the state.

ZIP codes in Bay City, MI

Over the ten years to 2025, the 8 ZIP codes FHFA measures in this metro ranged from +68.2% in 48650 to +109.0% in 48747, while the metro as a whole rose 95.0%.

ZIP codes in Bay City, MI ranked by 10-year home-price change through 2025 Column headers are buttons: click to sort, click again to reverse, and a third time to restore the original order.
48747-2.0%+11.2%+7.6%+109.0%
48634+11.5%+11.4%+7.4%+103.4%
48708+2.8%+10.0%+7.1%+98.4%
48706+7.2%+10.1%+6.6%+89.7%
48631+8.8%+9.0%+6.2%+83.1%
48611+5.6%+9.6%+6.0%+79.8%
48732+1.2%+8.6%+6.0%+78.4%
48650-13.2%+5.9%+5.3%+68.2%

What a home report shows

Enter an address and you get a score out of 10 for how the home ranks on appreciation potential against comparable homes in its market, with the nearby sales behind it. Here is one saved report.

Example report · saved October 14, 2026

165 N Canal St, Apt 1205, Chicago, IL 60606

Appreciation score

4.1 / 10

Around the median

Where it ranks

Ranks above about 41% of comparable homes in Chicago, IL for appreciation potential.

Price against nearby sales

Priced below most nearby sales, at $300 per square foot across 6 comparable sales.

Read the full example report

Year by year

Annual house price index for Bay City, MI and Michigan, 2005 = 100 Column headers are buttons: click to sort, click again to reverse, and a third time to restore the original order.
2005100.0—100.0
200699.0-1.0%98.5
200796.5-2.6%94.3
200890.0-6.7%86.9
200985.0-5.6%80.6
201080.6-5.1%75.1
201180.2-0.6%72.2
201279.3-1.0%72.3
201378.4-1.2%76.7
201479.8+1.9%81.9
201582.9+3.8%86.5
201683.0+0.2%91.2
201786.1+3.7%97.2
201889.7+4.2%103.2
201993.8+4.6%108.6
202099.4+6.0%114.2
2021113.4+14.1%129.0
2022130.2+14.8%146.6
2023139.9+7.4%155.9
2024153.8+9.9%167.2
2025161.6+5.1%176.7

The 16 measured metros in Michigan

Measured metros in Michigan ranked by 5-year home-price appreciation through 2025 Column headers are buttons: click to sort, click again to reverse, and a third time to restore the original order.
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1Traverse City, MI+7.4%+12.0%+9.1%
2Muskegon-Norton Shores, MI+6.7%+11.7%+9.5%
3Bay City, MI+5.1%+10.2%+6.9%
4Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI+5.1%+10.2%+8.8%
5Midland, MI+6.5%+9.8%+6.6%
6Battle Creek, MI+5.6%+9.6%+7.3%
7Niles, MI+4.9%+9.4%+7.1%
8Saginaw, MI+5.1%+9.4%+7.0%
9Kalamazoo-Portage, MI+5.0%+9.0%+7.1%
10Jackson, MI+6.5%+8.9%+7.3%
11Detroit-Dearborn-Livonia, MI (metropolitan division)+6.4%+8.7%+7.3%
12Flint, MI+6.6%+8.7%+7.4%
13Lansing-East Lansing, MI+5.6%+8.6%+7.0%
14Warren-Troy-Farmington Hills, MI (metropolitan division)+5.1%+8.1%+6.8%
15Monroe, MI+6.5%+8.0%+6.4%
16Ann Arbor, MI+4.4%+7.8%+6.6%

Source & method: Metro figures: FHFA quarterly all-transactions index for metropolitan statistical areas and metropolitan divisions, annualized as the mean of the four quarterly (NSA) values. State figures: FHFA quarterly all-transactions index, annualized as the mean of the four quarterly (NSA) values. The chart uses quarterly readings, with each series set to 100 in the first quarter of 2005. ZIP figures: FHFA annual five-digit ZIP index (developmental), ZIPs with sufficient transaction history. Missing years are reported as missing by FHFA and are not estimated. Each ZIP is placed in the metro that holds the county with most of its housing units. “5-yr /yr” and “10-yr /yr” are compound annual growth over the window ending 2025; all figures are nominal. Data published by the FHFA House Price Index; this edition compiled 2026-10-17. Educational data, not investment advice.

See the Michigan row in the state rankings, the county rankings, and, for why one metro number hides so much, why two homes in the same ZIP code appreciate differently.

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Measured FHFA data · chart through 2026 Q2