If you’ve spent any time scrolling through economics content online, chances are you’ve stumbled across one of those clean, colorful U.S. maps that make a complicated topic feel instantly understandable. Many of them come from a single source: Visual Capitalist. In June 2026, the outlet published a new analysis of the housing price surge across all 50 U.S. states (plus Washington, D.C.) for the five-year period ending in the first quarter of 2026 — and the results genuinely surprised a lot of readers, because the states at the very top of the housing price surge list weren’t California or Florida.…