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Top 10 Most Affordable Home Markets in 2006

September 17th, 2006 • Related • Filed Under

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Reading_paIf you are looking for a place to settle down, get out of the rat race, and buy an inexpensive home these are the cities for you. The ten markets with the lowest median cost of housing in the country.

    1. Reading, PA   $42,850
    2. Buffalo, NY    $45,000
    3. Niagara Falls, NY    $47,000
    4. Camden, NJ    $55,000
    5. Youngstown, OH    $55,000
    6. Utica, NY    $58,000
    7. Flint, MI    $59,000
    8. Rochester, NY    $60,000
    9. Saginaw, MI    $62,000
    10. Dayton, OH   $63,000

    via Money Magazine:

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    2. Top Affordable Housing Markets in the United States
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    4. Top 10 Slowest Markets For Second Quarter 2006
    5. Top 10 Least Affordable Housing Markets in 2007



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    1. Comment by Brian Slaughter on 17 September 2006:

      I was recently searching for a new city to relocate to and happened across this great site, http://www.hearthstoneguide.com….it convinced me that upstate NY was the place to be. I just fell in love with the whole Saratoga Spring region, the horse racing, the beauty of the area, the great downtown….and I found a great house.

    2. Comment by Chip on 18 September 2006:

      Well, this is a shocker! Gosh, all of these places are cold, miserable and snowy or snowbound in winter. Who would have thought they’d also be the least desirable places to live, thereby the best buys?

    3. Comment by Larry Nusbaum on 20 September 2006:

      THEY ARE AFFORDABLE FOR A REASON: No one wants to live there!

    4. Comment by angela on 20 September 2006:

      Reading, PA and Camden, NJ…
      hmmm…
      if you’ve ever been there, you know why they are “affordable”

    5. Comment by Brian on 24 September 2006:

      Pretty interesting figures.

      Here’s another site I found that looks at international real estate prices. France looks like a nice option:

      http://www.propertysearchnow.com

    6. Pingback by Ironic: Buffalo Has An Anti-Flipping Task Force — The Real Estate Bloggers on 6 August 2007:

      […] housing prices so low in Buffalo speculators are always lurking about. The disreputable con artists do thrive in settings like this, soliciting […]

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