A typical Pentwater home is worth roughly $344,000
What kind of housing town is Pentwater?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
85% of Pentwater households own their home
Half of Pentwater’s homes were built before 1970.
Michigan: 73% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.
A typical home costs 4.3 years of income
More than across Michigan (3.7 years). Try your own numbers below.
That’s $42K short of a typical Pentwater home.
A two-bedroom rents for about $970 a month here, $1,190 less than owning.
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Pentwater’s typical property tax (1.22% 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 $970
Renters already here pay a median of $556, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Mason County, MI): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
Neighbors talk housing
What Pentwater buyers, sellers and renters are saying.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
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.