Home appreciation in Saginaw, MI

Over the five years ending 2025, home prices in Saginaw, MI grew an average of 9.4% a year.

Price growth at a glance

1-year

+5.1%

2025 over 2024. Michigan: +5.7%.

5-year, per year

+9.4%

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

10-year, per year

+7.0%

+96.8% in total since 2015. Michigan: +7.4%.

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Saginaw, MI home prices rose 96.8% over the ten years to 2025, while its ZIP codes ranged from +74.5% to +144.3%. Look up your home to see where it ranks among the homes around it.

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How Saginaw, MI compares with Michigan

Michigan averaged +9.1% a year, so Saginaw, MI grew faster than the state overall. For five-year price growth, Saginaw, MI ranks 174th out of 409 metros nationwide and 8th out of 16 in Michigan.

Index, 2005 = 100

Saginaw, MI and Michigan, quarterly house price index rebased to 100 in 2005.
YearSaginaw, MIMichigan
2005 Q1100100
2005 Q299101
2005 Q3100101
2005 Q4100101
2006 Q1101101
2006 Q29799
2006 Q39698
2006 Q49699
2007 Q19698
2007 Q29696
2007 Q39393
2007 Q49393
2008 Q19292
2008 Q29089
2008 Q38785
2008 Q48484
2009 Q18886
2009 Q28583
2009 Q38279
2009 Q47978
2010 Q17976
2010 Q27875
2010 Q38076
2010 Q48176
2011 Q17773
2011 Q27572
2011 Q37673
2011 Q47774
2012 Q17572
2012 Q27672
2012 Q37573
2012 Q47674
2013 Q17675
2013 Q27877
2013 Q37778
2013 Q47879
2014 Q17680
2014 Q28082
2014 Q37984
2014 Q47885
2015 Q17985
2015 Q27987
2015 Q38188
2015 Q48189
2016 Q18189
2016 Q28391
2016 Q38493
2016 Q48594
2017 Q18495
2017 Q28597
2017 Q38899
2017 Q487100
2018 Q189101
2018 Q289104
2018 Q392105
2018 Q491106
2019 Q194107
2019 Q295109
2019 Q397110
2019 Q498111
2020 Q198112
2020 Q299113
2020 Q3101116
2020 Q4104118
2021 Q1107121
2021 Q2112128
2021 Q3118134
2021 Q4122137
2022 Q1124141
2022 Q2133150
2022 Q3132151
2022 Q4131149
2023 Q1132150
2023 Q2145158
2023 Q3142160
2023 Q4144161
2024 Q1144163
2024 Q2150169
2024 Q3153171
2024 Q4153171
2025 Q1151174
2025 Q2158178
2025 Q3161180
2025 Q4160181
2026 Q1162182
2026 Q2165186

Chart through 2026 Q2. Annual growth figures through 2025.

Growth was stronger over the last five years than over the full decade: +7.0% a year over ten years, +96.8% in total.

Over this history, home prices peaked in 2005, fell 24.3% to its 2012 low, and regained the 2005 level in 2020.

The strongest year was 2021 at +13.7%, and the weakest was 2008 at -6.5%.

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

ZIP codes in Saginaw, MI

Over the ten years to 2025, the 15 ZIP codes FHFA measures in this metro ranged from +74.5% in 48609 to +144.3% in 48602, while the metro as a whole rose 96.8%.

Fastest-rising ZIP codes

10-year change

  1. 48602+144.3%
  2. 48616+131.1%
  3. 48417+127.3%
  4. 48655+116.0%
  5. 48601+113.3%

Slowest-rising ZIP codes

10-year change

  1. 48609+74.5%
  2. 48603+81.1%
  3. 48623+82.0%
  4. 48734+92.2%
  5. 48638+94.9%
ZIP codes in Saginaw, 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.
48602-1.6%+10.7%+9.3%+144.3%
48616+10.2%+12.1%+8.7%+131.1%
48417+12.4%+11.8%+8.6%+127.3%
48655+8.7%+11.3%+8.0%+116.0%
48601+13.9%+10.5%+7.9%+113.3%
48604+5.6%+10.9%+7.5%+105.6%
48722+3.9%+11.1%+7.4%+104.1%
48637+2.9%+9.5%+7.4%+103.8%
48415+7.0%+9.2%+7.2%+100.5%
48626+13.4%+9.9%+7.0%+96.1%
48638+4.6%+8.9%+6.9%+94.9%
48734+6.7%+7.9%+6.8%+92.2%
48623+8.2%+9.3%+6.2%+82.0%
48603+2.7%+8.4%+6.1%+81.1%
48609+3.3%+8.1%+5.7%+74.5%

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 Saginaw, 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
200697.8-2.2%98.5
200794.8-3.1%94.3
200888.6-6.5%86.9
200983.7-5.5%80.6
201079.6-4.9%75.1
201176.7-3.6%72.2
201275.7-1.3%72.3
201377.4+2.2%76.7
201478.3+1.2%81.9
201580.4+2.7%86.5
201683.6+3.9%91.2
201786.2+3.1%97.2
201890.5+5.1%103.2
201996.4+6.5%108.6
2020101.2+5.0%114.2
2021115.1+13.7%129.0
2022130.4+13.3%146.6
2023141.3+8.3%155.9
2024150.6+6.6%167.2
2025158.3+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