A typical Peñasco home is worth roughly $229,000
What kind of housing town is Peñasco?
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A typical home costs 5 years of income
About the same as across New Mexico. Try your own numbers below.
That’s $33K short of a typical Peñasco home.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,200 a month here, $50 less than owning.
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Peñasco’s typical property tax (0.27% 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 $1,200
Renters already here pay a median of $963, 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 (Taos County, NM): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
72% of Peñasco households own their home
Half of Peñasco’s homes were built before 1971.
New Mexico: 70% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.
Neighbors talk housing
What Peñasco 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.