Click Here To See How Much Your Highland Park-Mount Washington Home Value Has Changed Since 2004

By MARC TORRENCE (Patch National Staff)

It’s been a rollercoaster decade for property values across the nation and especially in Los Angeles where home values rode the real estate bubble into the stratosphere only to fall hard during the recession. Fueled largely by investors and cash buyers, the region led the housing market’s recovery to the point where most LA residents can ill-afford the median price of a home in the County. But exactly what does that mean for your home’s value?

Has your property value increased or decreased since 2004, when housing prices began to bubble only to collapse in 2007? How has your area recovered since then?

Those are the questions The Washington Post set out to answer, not just for the country overall but for individual towns and neighborhoods, a total 19,000 U.S. zip codes. In Los Angeles County, the findings are surprising. For example a neighborhood in Silver Lake saw home values climb by 53 percent since 2004, but in Encino, homeowners saw only a 23 percent increase in the same timeframe.

The results: One of the more impressive and useful interactive maps you'll ever use.

Post staffers Ted Mellnik, Darla Cameron, Denise Lu, Emily Badger and Kat Downs used data from Black Knight Financial Services to compare home prices from 2004, just as real estate prices started to skyrocket, to 2015.

The data does not account for inflation but does correct for foreclosures and distressed sales to better reflect home values, the Post said.

In Brooklyn, New York, for example, home prices have increased by 146 percent since 2004. But in Decatur, Georgia, a suburb outside of Atlanta, prices are down 25 percent.

Click here and simply punch in your zip code to find out your home's worth last year compared to 2004.