Out of Northern California, Oregon, and Washington, what are the top
five cities for greatest home price appreciation of existing homes?
(Not new homes)

The top five locations in the US by home price appreciation are all in
California.  I'm not sure if they're all "Northern" California.  Most
of them are located around San Fransico.

1. Stockton-Lodi, CA  23.5%
2. Modesto, CA 21.4%
3. Salinas, CA 21.2%
4. Santa Rosa, CA  18.3%
5. Vallejo-Fairfield-Napa,CA  17.4%

This data came from:
http://www.homestore.com/Finance/HousePriceIndex/TopFive.asp?gate=homebuilder

Outside of those five, the top five cities in the area you specified
are:

1. Chico-Paradise, CA 14.8%
2. Redding, CA 9.6% 
3. Medford-Ashland, OR 9.3% 
4. Bremerton, WA 8.4% 
5. Tacoma, WA 7.7% 

This date came from:
http://www.homestore.com/Finance/HousePriceIndex/msa_ranking329.asp?gate=homebuilder

For some reason, the links on that website do not work properly.  They
have some sort of ASP error.  However, you can see the cities and
their appreciation rating.

You should be able to look the HPA value by City/State at the below
website, but it also gives an error.  You may want to check back in
the future.  They will probably have fixed the errors.
http://www.homestore.com/Finance/HousePriceIndex/default.asp?gate=homebuilder

Please note that this data is all based on the Home Price Index, which
is published by the government.  The current reports show home price
appreciation through the second quarter of 2001.

I found this information by searching Google from "home price
appreciation".  Thanks for using Google Answers!

Xemion

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Request for Answer Clarification by refixer-ga on 29 May 2002 13:48 PDT

How long will this answer be posted on this site? Will I be charged
anything if I don't ask any questions? Thanks, Tom

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Clarification of Answer by xemion-ga on 29 May 2002 14:46 PDT

Honest, I don't know how long your question will be here.  The FAQ
does not say.  I would assume that it be here for a long long time if
you bookmark it.  I suggest e-mailing answers-support@google.com for a
more definitive answer.

As for your other question ("Will I be charged anything if I don't ask
any questions?"), I'm not quite sure what you're asking.  If you have
any questions with my answer to your HPA question you are can ask for
clarification.  There is not further charge for clarification.

If you want to ask a new question on a different subject, you have to
create a new question and you will be charged for that answer.

On a side note, if you're happy with the answer I've given, I would
greatly appreciate a positive rating from you.  This helps my standing
in the Google Answers community.  Thank you!

xemion-ga

I live in Vacaville CA, which was mentioned on the list.  A 2,000
sqFeet house runs arround $300,000.

For Quality of Living and a High Appreciation Rate, Try the
Pleasanton, CA Area. Prices start at $600,000 for a Single Family
fixer-upper and rising rapidly, most Homes increased at least $70,000
last year alone. Try http://www.Pleasanton-Houses.com to search for
Real Estate in that area.