THE RHODE ISLAND HOME PRICE INDEX grew at the fastest rate year over year of any New England state in December, according to real estate data tracker CoreLogic. / COURTESY CORELOGIC
PROVIDENCE – The Providence-Warwick-Fall River metropolitan Home Price Index increased 7.6 percent year over year in December, according to CoreLogic Tuesday. Nationally, the HPI increased 6.6 percent year over year in the final month of 2017. In Rhode Island, the HPI increased 8.2 percent year over year in December, the largest year-over-year percentage increase in…