Top 10 Most Affordable Home Markets in 2006

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

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

    5. 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. [...] 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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