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Housing in Kahite

A typical Kahite home is worth roughly $668,000

Home prices around Kahite have risen about 80% over the past 5 years.

Typical home value
$668K
▲ 4.1% in a year · TN $334K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$1,180
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$2,498
TN $1,442

What kind of housing town is Kahite?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 5.6 years of income

More than across Tennessee (4.8 years). Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$500,000
Typical Kahite home $668K

That’s $168K short of a typical Kahite home.

The typical home, each month
$3,710
Loan $3,310Tax $210Insurance $190

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,180 a month here, $2,530 less than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Kahite’s typical property tax (0.37% 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

98% of Kahite households own their home

Half of Kahite’s homes were built before 2008.

Owners and renters
Own 98%Rent 2%

Tennessee: 67% own.

2008
typical home built · TN 1987
$2,498
median property tax bill · TN $1,442
0.37%
of a home’s value, a year in tax · TN 0.50%

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

Price trend

Home prices up 80% in 5 years

The federal house price index for the ZIP code around Kahite rose 80% over the past 5 years, faster than across Tennessee (60%). Last year prices rose 4.1%.

Kahite areaTennessee
0%+50%+100%+150%+200%200120052010201520202025
+4.1%
past year
+80%
past 5 years
+139%
past 10 years

Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index (annual) for the ZIP codes around Kahite, weighted by land area. It tracks repeat sales of the same homes, so it shows how prices changed, not what homes cost.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,180

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$880
1 bedroom$970
2 bedrooms$1,180
3 bedrooms$1,560
4 bedrooms$1,570
2%
of households rent · TN 33%
7
renter households

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Knoxville, TN HUD Metro FMR Area): 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. 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.

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