A typical Sweet home is worth roughly $235,000
Home prices around Sweet have risen about 39% over the past 5 years.
What kind of housing town is Sweet?
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What it takes to buy in Sweet
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That covers a typical Sweet home, with $106K to spare.
A two-bedroom rents for about $970 a month here, $460 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.
Home prices up 39% in 5 years
The federal house price index for the ZIP code around Sweet rose 39% over the past 5 years, about the same as across Minnesota. Last year prices fell 3.9%.
Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index (annual) for the ZIP codes around Sweet, weighted by land area. It tracks repeat sales of the same homes, so it shows how prices changed, not what homes cost.
94% of Sweet households own their home
Half of Sweet’s homes were built before 1973.
Minnesota: 72% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.
A two-bedroom rents for about $970
Renters already here pay a median of $1,292.
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Lincoln County, MN): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
Sweet vs. its neighbors
The towns that share a border with Sweet. Tap one to see its housing page.
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Typical value: Zillow Home Value Index; * Census median home value where Zillow has none. † FHFA price index change where Zillow has none. Rent: HUD Fair Market Rent. New homes: Census building permits.
Neighbors talk housing
What Sweet 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. Price trend: Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index. 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.