I think nobody knows for sure. The exact reason why the price is increasing is difficult to pinpoint.
There is never a single reason for something happening most of the time there are many reasons, we had the forks, since you could receive free coins I think that increased the price, but we also had segwit activation and we are going to get investors from the futures markets as well so we got mainly good news in this year and that made the price of bitcoin that high.