Twenty - five percent of home purchases in the nation's 25 lowest priced
counties averaged a down payment amount of $ 8,239.
Not exact matches
This translates into a 12 percent
down payment average for these areas, or half that seen in the nation's highest priced
counties.
Also, the 25
counties with the highest rates of millennial buyers, or the population who was born roughly between 1981 and 1997, had a higher
average down payment at 17 percent.
The 25 highest priced
counties experienced the highest
average down payment of 24 percent, according to Realty Trac's 2014 study of 1.5 million purchase loans.
Buyers in San Francisco
County put
down an
average of more than $ 326,000 on homes purchased in 2016, which represented an
average down payment of 29.9 %.
For example, in Tennessee's Tipton
County, an outer suburban county of Memphis, the average down payment was just over $
County, an outer suburban
county of Memphis, the average down payment was just over $
county of Memphis, the
average down payment was just over $ 3,500.
Markets where buyers using
down payment assistance programs can realize the biggest savings as a percentage of
average annual wages compared to buyers not using
down payment assistance were Kauai
County, Hawaii (191 percent of annual wages); Shasta
County (Redding), California (176 percent); Sevier
County (Sevierville), Tennessee (161 percent); El Dorado
County, California in the Sacramento metro area (160 percent); and Allen
County (Lima), Ohio (157 percent).
Major markets where a 3 percent
down payment on a median - priced home was higher than the
average down payment assistance available included New York
County (Manhattan), New York ($ 13,917
average down payment assistance compared to $ 34,500 for 3 percent
down on a median - priced home); Fairfax
County, Virginia in the Washington, D.C. metro area ($ 5,000
average assistance compared to $ 14,100 for 3 percent
down); Salt Lake
County, Utah ($ 5,313
average assistance compared to $ 8,078 for 3 percent
down); Montgomery
County, Maryland in the Washington, D.C. metro area ($ 4,680
average assistance compared to $ 11,550 for 3 percent
down); and Baltimore
County, Maryland ($ 6,173
average assistance compared to $ 6,210 for 3 percent
down).
The report combined public record sales deed data for single family homes and condos collected by RealtyTrac with
average down payment assistance data collected from 2,477 down payment assistance programs across the country by Down Payment Resource along with the latest average weekly wage data available at the county level from the Bureau of Labor Statist
down payment assistance data collected from 2,477 down payment assistance programs across the country by Down Payment Resource along with the latest average weekly wage data available at the county level from the Bureau of Labor Stat
payment assistance data collected from 2,477
down payment assistance programs across the country by Down Payment Resource along with the latest average weekly wage data available at the county level from the Bureau of Labor Statist
down payment assistance programs across the country by Down Payment Resource along with the latest average weekly wage data available at the county level from the Bureau of Labor Stat
payment assistance programs across the country by
Down Payment Resource along with the latest average weekly wage data available at the county level from the Bureau of Labor Statist
Down Payment Resource along with the latest average weekly wage data available at the county level from the Bureau of Labor Stat
Payment Resource along with the latest
average weekly wage data available at the
county level from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The report, released at the National Association of Real Estate Editors 50th Annual Journalism Conference in New Orleans today, found that across all 513
counties analyzed, buyers using available
down payment assistance programs can save an
average of $ 17,766 representing 41 percent of a year's wages compared to buyers who do not use
down payment assistance.
«Even just a 3 percent
down payment requires 14 percent of annual wages on
average across the 513
counties we analyzed, and in 67
counties, a 3 percent
down payment requires more than one - fifth of annual wages.»
Average assistance covers 3 percent down in 82 percent of counties Across all 513 counties, the average down payment assistance available through down payment assistance programs was $ 12,434, nearly twice the average 3 percent down payment of $ 6,424 on a median - price
Average assistance covers 3 percent
down in 82 percent of
counties Across all 513
counties, the
average down payment assistance available through down payment assistance programs was $ 12,434, nearly twice the average 3 percent down payment of $ 6,424 on a median - price
average down payment assistance available through
down payment assistance programs was $ 12,434, nearly twice the
average 3 percent down payment of $ 6,424 on a median - price
average 3 percent
down payment of $ 6,424 on a median - priced home.
According to RealtyTrac and
Down Payment Resource, the study reviewed 370 counties, and ranked each based on how it scored in five metrics: affordability of house payment in April 2015 relative to its historical average; maximum income allowed for homeownership programs relative to median income; maximum home price allowed for down payment help relative to median home prices; average down payment program benefit relative to median home prices; and number of homeownership programs available relative to total housing un
Down Payment Resource, the study reviewed 370 counties, and ranked each based on how it scored in five metrics: affordability of house payment in April 2015 relative to its historical average; maximum income allowed for homeownership programs relative to median income; maximum home price allowed for down payment help relative to median home prices; average down payment program benefit relative to median home prices; and number of homeownership programs available relative to total housing
Payment Resource, the study reviewed 370
counties, and ranked each based on how it scored in five metrics: affordability of house
payment in April 2015 relative to its historical average; maximum income allowed for homeownership programs relative to median income; maximum home price allowed for down payment help relative to median home prices; average down payment program benefit relative to median home prices; and number of homeownership programs available relative to total housing
payment in April 2015 relative to its historical
average; maximum income allowed for homeownership programs relative to median income; maximum home price allowed for
down payment help relative to median home prices; average down payment program benefit relative to median home prices; and number of homeownership programs available relative to total housing un
down payment help relative to median home prices; average down payment program benefit relative to median home prices; and number of homeownership programs available relative to total housing
payment help relative to median home prices;
average down payment program benefit relative to median home prices; and number of homeownership programs available relative to total housing un
down payment program benefit relative to median home prices; and number of homeownership programs available relative to total housing
payment program benefit relative to median home prices; and number of homeownership programs available relative to total housing units.
There were 36
counties of the 370 analyzed (10 %) that were less affordable for low
down payment buyers in April 2015 than their historic
averages.
On a whole, for the 370
counties that the study covered, 334 (90 %) were more affordable for low
down payment buyers in April 2015 than their historic
averages.
Counties with the highest
average down payment program benefit as a percentage of the median home sales price in April 2015 were Volusia
County, Florida in the Deltona - Daytona Beach - Ormond Beach metro area (24.73 %), Pasco
County, Florida in the Tampa metro area (24.16 %), Kern
County, California in the Bakersfield metro area (21.62 %), Sullivan
County, Tennessee in the Kingsport - Bristol metro area, and Broward
County, Florida in the Miami metro area.
Counties with the highest
average down payment assistance in dollars were San Francisco, California ($ 51,713), Orange
County, California ($ 43,121), Los Angeles
County, California ($ 40,004), Placer
County, California in the Sacramento metro area ($ 35,475) and King
County, Washington in the Seattle metro area ($ 33,735).
Since the
average person in Cook
County earns $ 1,146 a week, Attom calculates they'd need to devote 32.4 percent of pay to the monthly
payment, assuming they buy with a 3 percent
down payment.
o But for those borrowers with the
average student loan debt and
average car
payment, putting just 3 percent
down means monthly house
payments are affordable in less than half (48 percent) of all
county housing markets nationwide.