A typical Houston home is worth roughly $85,000
What kind of housing town is Houston?
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What it takes to buy in Houston
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That covers a typical Houston home, with $165K to spare.
A two-bedroom rents for about $930 a month here, $450 more than owning.
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, the Arkansas typical property tax (0.55% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.
A two-bedroom rents for about $930
Renters already here pay a median of $882.
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR HUD Metro FMR Area): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
63% of Houston households own their home
Half of Houston’s homes were built before 1973.
Arkansas: 66% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.
On the market in Houston
Listed in the past 60 days. Each opens on the listing site.
Neighbors talk housing
What Houston buyers, sellers and renters are saying.
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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.