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Housing in Lake Valley

A typical Lake Valley home is worth roughly $222,000

Typical home value
$222K
MN $351K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$970
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,221
MN $3,357

What kind of housing town is Lake Valley?

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★ What stands out · Affordability

What it takes to buy in Lake Valley

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You could afford about
$341,000
Typical Lake Valley home $222K

That covers a typical Lake Valley home, with $118K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$1,360
Loan $1,100Tax $190Insurance $60

A two-bedroom rents for about $970 a month here, $390 less than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, the Minnesota typical property tax (1.02% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.

The homes

97% of Lake Valley households own their home

Half of Lake Valley’s homes were built before 1976.

Owners and renters
Own 97%Rent 3%

Minnesota: 72% own.

1976
typical home built · MN 1979
$1,221
median property tax bill · MN $3,357

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $970

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$670
1 bedroom$740
2 bedrooms$970
3 bedrooms$1,350
4 bedrooms$1,610
3%
of households rent · MN 28%

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Traverse County, MN): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.

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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.

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