Home prices have been rising since the recession but they really surged this past year.

"Home prices have increased 6.5 percent over the past year from March 2017 to March 2018," according to a new GOBankingRates study. And in some parts of the U.S., they have shot up even more. In San Jose, California, for example, median list prices rose 23 percent. That means they went up by over $184,000 in absolute dollars.

Here are 15 U.S. cities where the real estate market is especially hot, according to GOBankingRates, which used price data from Zillow. Cities are listed in ascending order of percent change between the median list price in 2017 and 2018.