Our reports show you charts and graphs with data
on median prices, total inventory, average days on the market, price per square foot, and much more.
Based
on the median prices for the top 10 percent of homes sold in the Power Markets, key findings include:
To put this $ 470,000 in perspective, if a couple used this money to pay off the mortgage
on a median priced house, they would be able to buy an annuity that would pay them roughly $ 1,200 a month.
The following graphics depict the volume of home sales and the effects
on the median price per sq. ft. at different price points.
We based our borrower profile
on the median price of single - family homes in Virginia to determine which of these lenders had the best combination of interest rate and loan fees for a typical mortgage.
On average, across 124 large school districts, we estimate that it would take a teacher ten years of saving ten percent of their starting salary to save enough for a 20 percent down payment
on the median priced home in her district.
Let's take an example of a 5 % down purchase
on a median priced home in the Twin Cities 13 county metro area.
Here is a graph showing the monthly mortgage payment
on a median priced home in the U.S. over the last 25 years:
«Foreclosures tend to carry discounted price tags — great opportunities for buyers — so the cumulative effect of all these sales is a restraint
on the median price.»
Providence, R.I. — With a median list price of $ 259,000, the estimated monthly mortgage payment
on a median priced home in Providence is $ 960, well below the average monthly rental price of $ 1,527.
In fact, national REO - only gains of 8.1 % over the last year
on a median price - per - square - foot basis have outpaced non-REO price declines of -0.7 % by 8.8 percentage points.
But it also continued to put downward pressure
on the median price of homes sold.
Estimated mortgage payments
on a median priced home in the area with a 30 - year fixed loan and 20 percent down, come in at approximately $ 980.
Los Angeles, Calif. — With the highest median list price of our freshmen towns, Los Angeles still offers the right investor great options as average monthly rental prices are almost $ 1,000 higher than the estimated mortgage payment
on a median priced home.
Monthly 30 - year mortgage payments based
on the median price would also be significantly cheaper than the median rent in the state, at $ 1,460 versus $ 2,300, respectively.
The uptick
on median price has led to a decrease in Orlando's affordability index: the February index of 271.61 percent is almost 2 percentage points lower than January 2012's index of 273.32 percent.
While the average tax refund might not cover the down payment
on the median price home, it certainly helps.
Current low housing prices, coupled with historically low interest rates (the 20 year average is 7 % but a minimum down FHA loan can be had for 4.5 % today), explains why the monthly mortgage payment
on a median priced house bought with a 20 % down payment has fallen to an all - time low of 13 % of the median income.
Not exact matches
The flat growth in the core consumer
price index (CPI), which includes oil products but excludes volatile fresh food
prices, matched a
median market forecast and followed a 0.1 % rise in December, data from the Internal Affairs Ministry showed
on Friday.
* While searching for
prices on flights for this piece, we searched the two - week period of January 26, 2016 to February 9, 2016 and determined a
median range from the deals available.
Out East provided Business Insider with a ranking of most expensive towns in the Hamptons based
on median list
price.
We also pulled
median home
prices,
median rent
prices, and
median household incomes for many of these counties, based
on recent Census data.
Looking at annual
price returns over the past 60 years, Bloomberg data show that annual
price returns have been roughly 5 percent when the starting valuation
on the S&P 500 was above the long - term
median, roughly 16.5 x trailing earnings.
Among homes valued at $ 5 million or more, Trulia says the
median price is close to $ 7.4 million and comes with 5,663 square feet of living space
on nearly an acre of land.
With
median rent
on a one - bedroom apartment hovering around $ 3,000 and
prices in nearby Oakland, California, climbing, area residents routinely put more than half their take - home incomes toward housing.
Personal finance website GOBankingRates recently ranked the top suburbs for retirees based
on cost of living,
median home
prices and property tax rates, among other criteria.
In Brooklyn, people
on average would spend 67.4 percent of their pay
on rent, but buying the
median priced home at $ 640,000 would require 110.9 percent of pay.
Revenue multiples
on closed transactions dropped 2.5 percent, cash flow multiples dropped 8 percent and the
median sale
price for closed transactions dropped 20 percent to $ 160,000.
Median income earners in all but the top two to three expensive markets in the country can easily save 5 % of the median purchase price ($ 15,000 on a $ 300,000 property) of a home in their m
Median income earners in all but the top two to three expensive markets in the country can easily save 5 % of the
median purchase price ($ 15,000 on a $ 300,000 property) of a home in their m
median purchase
price ($ 15,000
on a $ 300,000 property) of a home in their market.
The
median price of a home sold in July hit $ 258,300, the highest July
price on record.
The Commerce Department's report
on new - home sales showed the
median sales
price declined 1 percent from May 2014 to $ 282,800, today's report showed.
These Fed - induced speculative valuations are now evident across the board, as the
median price / revenue multiple
on S&P 500 components (as well as S&P 1500 components) is now the highest in history, easily exceeding the 2000 peak.
«Indeed, the
median household currently has just over 150 percent of the income needed to buy a
median -
priced home, which compares to a long - run average of 125 percent,» wrote researchers at Capital Economics in a monthly report
on the U.S. housing market.
This Bay Area city has the highest
median home
price of all the cities
on our list.
The
median home
price in Columbus is the seventh - cheapest
on our list.
Cities were then evaluated
on four factors to narrow down to one city: 1) city unemployment rate, as of August 2016, sourced from Bureau of Labor Statistics; 2)
median household income, sourced from Census.gov; 3)
median home
price, sourced from Zillow; 4) percentage of population with bachelor's degree, sourced from Census.gov.
Its unemployment rate is lower than the majority of cities
on our list, and the
median home
price also beats most places.
And although the
median home
price is definitely
on the high - end, many cities throughout Oregon are experiencing rising
prices — a possible sign of the next real estate bubble.
Lancaster offers affordable housing, taking the fifth spot for the cheapest
median home
prices out of the cities
on our list.
Plus, with a
median rental
price of $ 995, Sioux Falls is one of the cheapest places to rent an apartment
on our list.
To find out what a typical mortgage with Wells Fargo might cost, we used the American
median household income,
median single - family home
price and a 10 % down payment
on a 30 year fixed - rate loan of $ 178,200.
Meanwhile, the available mortgage rates stick closely to quotes in other parts of the state
on similar loans, and the banks we surveyed made practically no adjustments in rate between Cleveland and Columbus — despite a towering difference in the
median listing
price.
In March 2000, near the stock market's bubble peak, the
median price / earnings ratio
on the largest 50 S&P 500 stocks was 35.6, while the
median P / E
on the smallest 50 S&P 500 stocks was just 10.1.
You can invest in higher yielding properties at much lower valuations for $ 5,000 — $ 10,000 minimums versus coming up with a $ 200,000 + downpayment and taking
on $ 1,000,000 in mortgage debt for the
median SF or NYC home
price.
FHA loan limits vary based
on location and property type (such as a single - family home or duplex), and are calculated as 115 % of a county's
median home
price.
The
median price is double that number, so salary «guesstimate»
on this article is half of what would be needed, so you can double that $ 99k annual salary to $ 180,000.
We feel it is, because with the Zestimate, we have an estimate of the current value of every home in the area and, thus, can estimate what the
median sale
price of the whole area would be if every home were sold
on the same day: It would approximately equal the
median Zestimate, or Zillow Home Value Index for that area.
The key question is: «How much salary do you need to earn in order to afford the principal and interest payments
on a
median -
priced home in your metro area?»
«To illustrate the probable epilogue to the current bubble, we've calculated
price targets for some of the glamour techs, based
on current revenues per share, multiplied by the
median price / revenue ratio over the bull market period 1991 - 1999.
So, essentially, the VA's program is designed to accommodate buyers who are seeking a moderately
priced house, based
on median home values in the area.