MORE IN SPRING REAL ESTATE 2011
Topics
- For Rebound, Once Again It's Wait Until Next Year
- Home Alone: Ownership Losing Its Allure
- You Don’t Have To Live In Your House
- Homebuilder Stocks May Finally Get Off The Ground
- Multi-Family Offers Good Value for Aspiring Landlords
- REITs Could Have Another Good Year
- In Asia, Property Boom—Not Bust—Is the Worry
Exclusive Price Data
Chart: Homes Prices in Mid-Market Municipalities
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One of the surprising things about the real estate recession is that there's been little pattern to price declines.
There's been less trading up than in the past. Meanwhile, the low end has benefited from a wave of first-time buyers driven by artificially low interest rates and government tax incentives. And the high end appeared to be the last to decline and the first to rebound.
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Owning a house in a town at the midpoint of any market, however, is no recipe for success these days.
The table below includes the median price of an existing home in 10 metropolitan areas, along with those of the two municipalities whose median price is close to that of the larger area. (The data is courtesy of online real estate marketplace Zillow.com, which performed a custom analysis for CNBC.com's special report "Investor's Spring Guide To Real Estate.")
Take a look at how prices stack up. In most cases, the difference in price is around one percentage point.
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Data is a real-time snapshot *Data is delayed at least 15 minutes
