What the housing market looks like in 25 populous metros
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What the housing market looks like in 25 populous metros
A record rise in home prices across the country was brought about by record-low interest rates on home loans, soaring demand from buyers, and a housing shortage exacerbated by hesitancy among developers.
Sundae looked to its internal database of homes to show what houses look like at five different price points, ranging from $100,000 to $1 million, in 25 different metros. For each price point in each metro, Sundae lists how many houses were for sale from July 2020 through July 2021, as well as show an example and characteristics of one of these homes.
In June, properties remained on the market for an average of just 17 days—24 less days than the year prior—and the median price for an existing home was up 23% over June 2020, according to a report from the National Association of Realtors. Out of all homes on the market, 90% have generally been selling within one month.
Continue reading to find out more about the housing market in 25 parts of America.
New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-PA
- Total home sales in metro: 249,855 (average price: $721,360)
- Sales of $100,000-$200,000 homes: 16,769
--- Average number of bedrooms: 1.1
--- Average square feet: 1,228
- Sales of $200,000-$300,000 homes: 33,475
--- Average number of bedrooms: 1.1
--- Average square feet: 1,320
- Sales of $300,000-$500,000 homes: 86,004
--- Average number of bedrooms: 0.9
--- Average square feet: 1,562
- Sales of $500,000-$750,000 homes: 63,865
--- Average number of bedrooms: 0.9
--- Average square feet: 1,944
- Sales of $750,000-$1 million homes: 27,479
--- Average number of bedrooms: 1.0
--- Average square feet: 2,337
Chicago-Naperville-Joliet, IL-IN-WI
- Total home sales in metro: 189,118 (average price: $348,701)
- Sales of $100,000-$200,000 homes: 48,191
--- Average number of bedrooms: 1.8
--- Average square feet: 948
- Sales of $200,000-$300,000 homes: 53,300
--- Average number of bedrooms: 2.1
--- Average square feet: 1,283
- Sales of $300,000-$500,000 homes: 50,905
--- Average number of bedrooms: 2.2
--- Average square feet: 1,649
- Sales of $500,000-$750,000 homes: 16,710
--- Average number of bedrooms: 2.2
--- Average square feet: 2,055
- Sales of $750,000-$1 million homes: 5,276
--- Average number of bedrooms: 2.6
--- Average square feet: 2,514
Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach, FL
- Total home sales in metro: 150,280 (average price: $598,956)
- Sales of $100,000-$200,000 homes: 29,407
--- Average number of bedrooms: 1.9
--- Average square feet: 1,089
- Sales of $200,000-$300,000 homes: 31,148
--- Average number of bedrooms: 2.2
--- Average square feet: 1,286
- Sales of $300,000-$500,000 homes: 42,479
--- Average number of bedrooms: 2.5
--- Average square feet: 1,633
- Sales of $500,000-$750,000 homes: 18,465
--- Average number of bedrooms: 2.7
--- Average square feet: 2,172
- Sales of $750,000-$1 million homes: 7,225
--- Average number of bedrooms: 2.9
--- Average square feet: 2,554
Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta, GA
- Total home sales in metro: 149,152 (average price: $494,325)
- Sales of $100,000-$200,000 homes: 32,620
--- Average number of bedrooms: 2.5
--- Average square feet: 1,444
- Sales of $200,000-$300,000 homes: 44,655
--- Average number of bedrooms: 2.8
--- Average square feet: 1,840
- Sales of $300,000-$500,000 homes: 41,664
--- Average number of bedrooms: 3.2
--- Average square feet: 2,460
- Sales of $500,000-$750,000 homes: 13,952
--- Average number of bedrooms: 3.5
--- Average square feet: 2,963
- Sales of $750,000-$1 million homes: 4,152
--- Average number of bedrooms: 3.8
--- Average square feet: 3,471
Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ
- Total home sales in metro: 146,150 (average price: $1,098,041)
- Sales of $100,000-$200,000 homes: 11,350
--- Average number of bedrooms: data not available
--- Average square feet: 1,227
- Sales of $200,000-$300,000 homes: 39,310
--- Average number of bedrooms: data not available
--- Average square feet: 1,494
- Sales of $300,000-$500,000 homes: 61,326
--- Average number of bedrooms: data not available
--- Average square feet: 1,947
- Sales of $500,000-$750,000 homes: 20,076
--- Average number of bedrooms: data not available
--- Average square feet: 2,603
- Sales of $750,000-$1 million homes: 5,610
--- Average number of bedrooms: data not available
--- Average square feet: 3,112
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, CA
- Total home sales in metro: 141,946 (average price: $1,307,854)
- Sales of $100,000-$200,000 homes: 966
--- Average number of bedrooms: 2.5
--- Average square feet: 1,319
- Sales of $200,000-$300,000 homes: 3,233
--- Average number of bedrooms: 2.2
--- Average square feet: 1,097
- Sales of $300,000-$500,000 homes: 21,784
--- Average number of bedrooms: 2.4
--- Average square feet: 1,224
- Sales of $500,000-$750,000 homes: 43,121
--- Average number of bedrooms: 2.8
--- Average square feet: 1,404
- Sales of $750,000-$1 million homes: 31,770
--- Average number of bedrooms: 3.2
--- Average square feet: 1,769
Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX
- Total home sales in metro: 124,836 (average price: $1,273,363)
- Sales of $100,000-$200,000 homes: 18,217
--- Average number of bedrooms: 2.5
--- Average square feet: 1,487
- Sales of $200,000-$300,000 homes: 39,034
--- Average number of bedrooms: 2.7
--- Average square feet: 1,828
- Sales of $300,000-$500,000 homes: 44,044
--- Average number of bedrooms: 3.0
--- Average square feet: 2,465
- Sales of $500,000-$750,000 homes: 16,574
--- Average number of bedrooms: 3.5
--- Average square feet: 3,310
- Sales of $750,000-$1 million homes: 1,973
--- Average number of bedrooms: 3.7
--- Average square feet: 3,862
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV
- Total home sales in metro: 119,934 (average price: $788,223)
- Sales of $100,000-$200,000 homes: 5,919
--- Average number of bedrooms: 0.8
--- Average square feet: 1,077
- Sales of $200,000-$300,000 homes: 17,052
--- Average number of bedrooms: 1.1
--- Average square feet: 1,224
- Sales of $300,000-$500,000 homes: 43,395
--- Average number of bedrooms: 1.5
--- Average square feet: 1,619
- Sales of $500,000-$750,000 homes: 30,606
--- Average number of bedrooms: 2.3
--- Average square feet: 2,123
- Sales of $750,000-$1 million homes: 13,648
--- Average number of bedrooms: 2.7
--- Average square feet: 2,451
Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, TX
- Total home sales in metro: 114,467 (average price: $1,763,196)
- Sales of $100,000-$200,000 homes: 22,694
--- Average number of bedrooms: 2.2
--- Average square feet: 1,647
- Sales of $200,000-$300,000 homes: 37,744
--- Average number of bedrooms: 2.3
--- Average square feet: 2,067
- Sales of $300,000-$500,000 homes: 34,511
--- Average number of bedrooms: 2.4
--- Average square feet: 2,592
- Sales of $500,000-$750,000 homes: 12,233
--- Average number of bedrooms: 2.5
--- Average square feet: 3,265
- Sales of $750,000-$1 million homes: 1,803
--- Average number of bedrooms: 2.9
--- Average square feet: 3,645
Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD
- Total home sales in metro: 111,004 (average price: $309,617)
- Sales of $100,000-$200,000 homes: 26,340
--- Average number of bedrooms: 1.4
--- Average square feet: 1,320
- Sales of $200,000-$300,000 homes: 31,054
--- Average number of bedrooms: 1.5
--- Average square feet: 1,555
- Sales of $300,000-$500,000 homes: 29,751
--- Average number of bedrooms: 2.1
--- Average square feet: 2,042
- Sales of $500,000-$750,000 homes: 9,828
--- Average number of bedrooms: 2.9
--- Average square feet: 2,835
- Sales of $750,000-$1 million homes: 2,718
--- Average number of bedrooms: 3.2
--- Average square feet: 3,484
Detroit-Warren-Livonia, MI
- Total home sales in metro: 100,851 (average price: $223,072)
- Sales of $100,000-$200,000 homes: 29,297
--- Average number of bedrooms: 1.6
--- Average square feet: 1,328
- Sales of $200,000-$300,000 homes: 21,876
--- Average number of bedrooms: 2.0
--- Average square feet: 1,530
- Sales of $300,000-$500,000 homes: 18,352
--- Average number of bedrooms: 2.3
--- Average square feet: 2,093
- Sales of $500,000-$750,000 homes: 5,024
--- Average number of bedrooms: 2.5
--- Average square feet: 2,655
- Sales of $750,000-$1 million homes: 1,114
--- Average number of bedrooms: 2.9
--- Average square feet: 3,228
Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI
- Total home sales in metro: 92,982 (average price: $401,850)
- Sales of $100,000-$200,000 homes: 11,833
--- Average number of bedrooms: 2.2
--- Average square feet: 1,025
- Sales of $200,000-$300,000 homes: 31,061
--- Average number of bedrooms: 2.7
--- Average square feet: 1,193
- Sales of $300,000-$500,000 homes: 36,184
--- Average number of bedrooms: 3.2
--- Average square feet: 1,570
- Sales of $500,000-$750,000 homes: 9,645
--- Average number of bedrooms: 3.6
--- Average square feet: 2,260
- Sales of $750,000-$1 million homes: 2,336
--- Average number of bedrooms: 3.8
--- Average square feet: 2,665
Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA
- Total home sales in metro: 87,493 (average price: $777,438)
- Sales of $100,000-$200,000 homes: 1,744
--- Average number of bedrooms: 2.2
--- Average square feet: 1,189
- Sales of $200,000-$300,000 homes: 5,177
--- Average number of bedrooms: 2.1
--- Average square feet: 1,053
- Sales of $300,000-$500,000 homes: 26,055
--- Average number of bedrooms: 2.8
--- Average square feet: 1,398
- Sales of $500,000-$750,000 homes: 27,085
--- Average number of bedrooms: 3.1
--- Average square feet: 1,796
- Sales of $750,000-$1 million homes: 14,061
--- Average number of bedrooms: 3.3
--- Average square feet: 2,090
Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL
- Total home sales in metro: 87,087 (average price: $328,236)
- Sales of $100,000-$200,000 homes: 21,896
--- Average number of bedrooms: 1.5
--- Average square feet: 1,225
- Sales of $200,000-$300,000 homes: 26,501
--- Average number of bedrooms: 1.7
--- Average square feet: 1,557
- Sales of $300,000-$500,000 homes: 22,446
--- Average number of bedrooms: 1.8
--- Average square feet: 2,000
- Sales of $500,000-$750,000 homes: 6,885
--- Average number of bedrooms: 1.6
--- Average square feet: 2,485
- Sales of $750,000-$1 million homes: 2,209
--- Average number of bedrooms: 1.5
--- Average square feet: 2,769
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA
- Total home sales in metro: 83,288 (average price: $526,104)
- Sales of $100,000-$200,000 homes: 4,402
--- Average number of bedrooms: 2.1
--- Average square feet: 1,067
- Sales of $200,000-$300,000 homes: 11,481
--- Average number of bedrooms: 2.5
--- Average square feet: 1,280
- Sales of $300,000-$500,000 homes: 36,863
--- Average number of bedrooms: 3.0
--- Average square feet: 1,680
- Sales of $500,000-$750,000 homes: 21,953
--- Average number of bedrooms: 3.5
--- Average square feet: 2,253
- Sales of $750,000-$1 million homes: 5,533
--- Average number of bedrooms: 3.7
--- Average square feet: 2,763
Denver-Aurora, CO
- Total home sales in metro: 79,836 (average price: $552,204)
- Sales of $100,000-$200,000 homes: 2,757
--- Average number of bedrooms: 1.6
--- Average square feet: 935
- Sales of $200,000-$300,000 homes: 8,369
--- Average number of bedrooms: 2.0
--- Average square feet: 1,062
- Sales of $300,000-$500,000 homes: 33,874
--- Average number of bedrooms: 2.7
--- Average square feet: 1,431
- Sales of $500,000-$750,000 homes: 24,442
--- Average number of bedrooms: 3.1
--- Average square feet: 1,933
- Sales of $750,000-$1 million homes: 6,659
--- Average number of bedrooms: 3.3
--- Average square feet: 2,527
Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, MA-NH
- Total home sales in metro: 79,643 (average price: $686,154)
- Sales of $100,000-$200,000 homes: 2,893
--- Average number of bedrooms: 2.1
--- Average square feet: 1,453
- Sales of $200,000-$300,000 homes: 7,081
--- Average number of bedrooms: 2.3
--- Average square feet: 1,200
- Sales of $300,000-$500,000 homes: 25,401
--- Average number of bedrooms: 2.8
--- Average square feet: 1,493
- Sales of $500,000-$750,000 homes: 24,714
--- Average number of bedrooms: 3.2
--- Average square feet: 1,918
- Sales of $750,000-$1 million homes: 10,531
--- Average number of bedrooms: 3.6
--- Average square feet: 2,337
Cincinnati-Middletown, OH-KY-IN
- Total home sales in metro: 71,796 (average price: $229,919)
- Sales of $100,000-$200,000 homes: 26,174
--- Average number of bedrooms: 2.6
--- Average square feet: 1,349
- Sales of $200,000-$300,000 homes: 17,186
--- Average number of bedrooms: 3.0
--- Average square feet: 1,715
- Sales of $300,000-$500,000 homes: 11,842
--- Average number of bedrooms: 3.3
--- Average square feet: 2,274
- Sales of $500,000-$750,000 homes: 3,110
--- Average number of bedrooms: 3.4
--- Average square feet: 2,897
- Sales of $750,000-$1 million homes: 755
--- Average number of bedrooms: 3.4
--- Average square feet: 3,446
St. Louis, MO-IL
- Total home sales in metro: 71,371 (average price: $406,227)
- Sales of $100,000-$200,000 homes: 22,542
--- Average number of bedrooms: 1.7
--- Average square feet: 1,273
- Sales of $200,000-$300,000 homes: 17,729
--- Average number of bedrooms: 2.1
--- Average square feet: 1,548
- Sales of $300,000-$500,000 homes: 11,929
--- Average number of bedrooms: 2.5
--- Average square feet: 2,144
- Sales of $500,000-$750,000 homes: 3,088
--- Average number of bedrooms: 2.9
--- Average square feet: 2,866
- Sales of $750,000-$1 million homes: 653
--- Average number of bedrooms: 3.1
--- Average square feet: 3,405
Las Vegas-Paradise, NV
- Total home sales in metro: 67,009 (average price: $834,405)
- Sales of $100,000-$200,000 homes: 8,058
--- Average number of bedrooms: 2.2
--- Average square feet: 1,107
- Sales of $200,000-$300,000 homes: 18,134
--- Average number of bedrooms: 2.9
--- Average square feet: 1,449
- Sales of $300,000-$500,000 homes: 29,097
--- Average number of bedrooms: 3.4
--- Average square feet: 2,044
- Sales of $500,000-$750,000 homes: 7,203
--- Average number of bedrooms: 3.8
--- Average square feet: 2,943
- Sales of $750,000-$1 million homes: 1,809
--- Average number of bedrooms: 3.7
--- Average square feet: 3,387
Charlotte-Gastonia-Concord, NC-SC
- Total home sales in metro: 60,558 (average price: $2,383,085)
- Sales of $100,000-$200,000 homes: 9,704
--- Average number of bedrooms: 2.1
--- Average square feet: 1,258
- Sales of $200,000-$300,000 homes: 17,240
--- Average number of bedrooms: 2.5
--- Average square feet: 1,679
- Sales of $300,000-$500,000 homes: 18,215
--- Average number of bedrooms: 2.8
--- Average square feet: 2,349
- Sales of $500,000-$750,000 homes: 5,379
--- Average number of bedrooms: 3.0
--- Average square feet: 2,992
- Sales of $750,000-$1 million homes: 1,655
--- Average number of bedrooms: 3.3
--- Average square feet: 3,399
Orlando-Kissimmee, FL
- Total home sales in metro: 60,324 (average price: $355,684)
- Sales of $100,000-$200,000 homes: 11,696
--- Average number of bedrooms: 2.5
--- Average square feet: 1,266
- Sales of $200,000-$300,000 homes: 20,203
--- Average number of bedrooms: 3.0
--- Average square feet: 1,619
- Sales of $300,000-$500,000 homes: 18,783
--- Average number of bedrooms: 3.6
--- Average square feet: 2,258
- Sales of $500,000-$750,000 homes: 4,520
--- Average number of bedrooms: 4.1
--- Average square feet: 3,083
- Sales of $750,000-$1 million homes: 1,272
--- Average number of bedrooms: 4.3
--- Average square feet: 3,700
San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA
- Total home sales in metro: 59,818 (average price: $1,269,022)
- Sales of $100,000-$200,000 homes: 907
--- Average number of bedrooms: 2.9
--- Average square feet: 1,496
- Sales of $200,000-$300,000 homes: 1,194
--- Average number of bedrooms: 2.6
--- Average square feet: 1,325
- Sales of $300,000-$500,000 homes: 5,469
--- Average number of bedrooms: 2.2
--- Average square feet: 1,147
- Sales of $500,000-$750,000 homes: 12,574
--- Average number of bedrooms: 2.7
--- Average square feet: 1,442
- Sales of $750,000-$1 million homes: 11,594
--- Average number of bedrooms: 2.8
--- Average square feet: 1,584
Portland-Vancouver-Beaverton, OR-WA
- Total home sales in metro: 55,466 (average price: $562,645)
- Sales of $100,000-$200,000 homes: 1,604
--- Average number of bedrooms: 2.0
--- Average square feet: 1,158
- Sales of $200,000-$300,000 homes: 4,465
--- Average number of bedrooms: 2.1
--- Average square feet: 1,158
- Sales of $300,000-$500,000 homes: 27,038
--- Average number of bedrooms: 2.8
--- Average square feet: 1,555
- Sales of $500,000-$750,000 homes: 16,250
--- Average number of bedrooms: 3.1
--- Average square feet: 2,203
- Sales of $750,000-$1 million homes: 4,101
--- Average number of bedrooms: 3.3
--- Average square feet: 2,874
Baltimore-Towson, MD
- Total home sales in metro: 54,262 (average price: $349,859)
- Sales of $100,000-$200,000 homes: 9,284
--- Average number of bedrooms: data not available
--- Average square feet: 1,200
- Sales of $200,000-$300,000 homes: 13,567
--- Average number of bedrooms: data not available
--- Average square feet: 1,338
- Sales of $300,000-$500,000 homes: 17,860
--- Average number of bedrooms: data not available
--- Average square feet: 1,765
- Sales of $500,000-$750,000 homes: 6,924
--- Average number of bedrooms: data not available
--- Average square feet: 2,611
- Sales of $750,000-$1 million homes: 1,782
--- Average number of bedrooms: data not available
--- Average square feet: 3,302
This story originally appeared on Sundae and was produced and distributed in partnership with Stacker Studio.