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Housing in Fortine

A typical Fortine home is worth roughly $326,000

Typical home value
$326K
MT $472K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$1,600
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,375
MT $2,693

What kind of housing town is Fortine?

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★ What stands out · Affordability

What it takes to buy in Fortine

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You could afford about
$292,000
Typical Fortine home $326K

That’s $34K short of a typical Fortine home.

The typical home, each month
$1,900
Loan $1,610Tax $190Insurance $100

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,600 a month here, $300 less than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, the Montana typical property tax (0.72% 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

90% of Fortine households own their home

Half of Fortine’s homes were built before 2002.

Owners and renters
Own 90%Rent 10%

Montana: 69% own.

2002
typical home built · MT 1981
$1,375
median property tax bill · MT $2,693
25%
of homes are seasonal or vacation homes

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 $1,600

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$1,260
1 bedroom$1,460
2 bedrooms$1,600
3 bedrooms$2,230
4 bedrooms$2,600
10%
of households rent · MT 31%
7
renter households

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Lincoln County, MT): 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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