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Since the housing crash and recession in 2008, some metro areas have made full recoveries, while others continue to struggle. And despite the challenges of the market today—high ...

Since the housing crash and recession of 2008, most metro areas have fully recovered while others are still lagging behind the housing recovery. Using the Federal Housing and Finance Agency’s Home Price Index, a report has been put together on the top and bottom 10 metros that have recovered the most and the least respectively. Five more metro areas were considered “fully recovered” this quarter.

Average fixed mortgage rates fell down slightly from last week's post-Brexit high, according to Freddie Mac’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey for the week ending September 22, 2016.

While some housing markets have since climbed their way back up to reach new peaks, others are still struggling to reach their previous highs.

Since the Great Recession, home prices have been fighting their way back to peak levels reached prior to the crisis and some markets' home prices have more than recovered.

The salary consumers need to purchase a home varies from city-to-city across the country, but San Francisco remains the most unaffordable city all consumers except those with high salaries, according to a recent HSH.com survey.