Some of the US counties with a high proportion of vacation homes are seeing price increases that rival, if not outstrip, the booming metropolitan areas. For example, according to the Case-Shiller Indexes, home prices in the fashionable Cape Cod vacation area in Massachusetts soared 184% from 1997 to 2005, compared to the 131% increase in nearby Boston over the same period.
度假住宅高度集中的地区房价迅速上涨，即便没有超过飞速发展的城市区域也已经相差无几。举例来讲，Case-Shiller指数显示：倍受欢迎的马萨诸塞州科德角度假区住宅价格从1997到2005年间上涨了184%，而离科德角不远的波士顿房价在同期的上涨幅度只有131%。