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Housing in Furman

A typical Furman home is worth roughly $95,000

Typical home value
$95K
SC $306K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$900
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,141
SC $1,251

What kind of housing town is Furman?

Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 1.3 years of income

Less than across South Carolina (4.4 years). Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$269,000
Typical Furman home $95K

That covers a typical Furman home, with $174K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$590
Loan $470Tax $100Insurance $30

A two-bedroom rents for about $900 a month here, $310 more than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Furman’s typical property tax (1.20% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $900

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$680
1 bedroom$720
2 bedrooms$900
3 bedrooms$1,200
4 bedrooms$1,430
19%
of households rent · SC 28%
15
renter households

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

The homes

81% of Furman households own their home

Half of Furman’s homes were built before 1979.

Owners and renters
Own 81%Rent 19%

South Carolina: 72% own.

1979
typical home built · SC 1992
$1,141
median property tax bill · SC $1,251
1.20%
of a home’s value, a year in tax · SC 0.48%
3%
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.

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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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