CLEVELAND, Ohio - Home sale prices were up last year across most of Cuyahoga County, with markets as diverse as Garfield Heights, Cleveland, University Heights and Olmsted Township among those posting gains of more than 10 percent.

Overall, the median price for single-family homes rose nearly 4 percent in the suburbs to $135,000, while going up 14 percent in Cleveland to $37,500, cleveland.com's annual housing price analysis found.

The median prices in 24 separate cities and villages topped $200,000, including seven eastern suburbs where the typical price was over $300,000.

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Still not back to 2007 levels

Median single-family prices across much of Cuyahoga County remain below 2007, before the housng crash.

While 2017 marked the sixth the consecutive year of price growth in the suburbs and the fifth straight year of gains in Cleveland, prices overall still were not yet where they were before the housing crash a decade ago, cleveland.com found in analyzing transfer data from the Cuyahoga County Fiscal Officer.

The suburban median remained 3 percent below the 2007 median of $138,659, though much improved over the valley of $109,000 in 2012.

Cleveland's median remained 18 percent below the 2007 median of $45,500, though up sharply over the 2008 median of $18,000.

Among the 39 places where there were at least 100 sales last year - offering a better look at the trends - the median price in 16 cities and village was above 2007 levels. Prices in 23 other places remained below 2007.

Up from 2007 to 2017 were Bay Village, Beachwood, Berea, Broadview Heights, Chagrin Falls, East Cleveland, Fairview Park, Highland Heights, Lakewood, Middleburg Heights, North Olmsted, North Royalton, Olmsted Falls, Olmsted Township, Rocky River and Westlake.

The analysis excluded sheriff's deeds and homes sold under $1,000 because they do not reflect the normal buyer's market. In some cases, new homes sold on newly created parcels are not flagged as single-family homes in the transfer data.

Housing prices are highest in some far eastern suburbs.

Top dollar

The most expensive place was Hunting Valley, where the median price on 11 sales last year was $1,002,000.

Next - all with at least 50 sales - were Gates Mills at $470,000, Moreland Hills at $397,450 and Pepper Pike at $387,500.

Lowest was East Cleveland, where the median price on 115 home sales was $17,500, up from $12,000 in 2016.

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Biggest gainers

Prices were up in nearly every city, village or township where there were enough sales to establish a trend. This included increases in 35 of the 39 places where there were at least 100 sales last year.

Leading the way were:

Highland Heights, up $41,650 to $264,150

Pepper Pike, up $32,505 to $387,500.

Olmsted Township, up $20,600 to $208,000.

Solon, up $19,000 to $269,000.

University Heights, up $17,050 to $147,000.

Price declines

The only declines among places with 100 sales were:

Chagrin Falls, down $22,500 to $322,500.

Shaker Heights, down $13,000 to $212,000.

Bedford Heights, down $5,300 to $84,600.

Beachwood, down $2,000 to $278,000.

Some of the declines could be just an anomaly.

In Bedford Heights prices were up each of the previous three years. Beachwood prices were up for five straight years before the 2017 drop. And in Chagrin Falls, the median had increased $68,000 from 2015 to 2016.

The 2017 drop in Shaker Heights, however, came after a year of no change from 2015 to 2016.

Gains and loss, by percent

The biggest price gain, by percent, last year was in East Cleveland, with prices up 46 percent, but in looking back two years, there has been no change. The median price was $17,500 in 2015, $12,000 in 2016 and $17,500 in 2017.

Otherwise, among the places with 100 sales last year, 11 cities, villages and townships posted price gains of at least 10 percent - many of them where prices previously had fallen sharply during the housing crash.

Leading the way were:

Highland Heights, up 19 percent to $264,150

Warrensville Heights, up 17 percent to $52,500.

Euclid, up 16 percent to $64,000.

Garfield Heights, up 15 percent to $53,000.

This marked the sixth straight years of price gains for Euclid, up from $35,000 in 2011.

Garfield Heights also hasn't had experienced a loss since 2011, when its median had fallen to $31,175, but there was one year of no change since then.

Rich Exner, data analysis editor for cleveland.com, writes about numbers on a variety of topics. Follow on Twitter @RichExner.