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Housing in Lakeside

A typical Lakeside home is worth roughly $148,000

No new homes were permitted in 2018.

Typical home value
$148K
TX $299K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$1,260
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,875
TX $4,232

What kind of housing town is Lakeside?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

What it takes to buy in Lakeside

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You could afford about
$281,000
Typical Lakeside home $148K

That covers a typical Lakeside home, with $133K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$960
Loan $730Tax $180Insurance $40

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,260 a month here, $300 more than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, the Texas typical property tax (1.49% 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 $1,260

Renters already here pay a median of $1,568.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$950
1 bedroom$1,020
2 bedrooms$1,260
3 bedrooms$1,640
4 bedrooms$1,910
15%
of households rent · TX 37%
19
renter households
$1,568
median rent paid today · Census

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Corpus Christi, TX 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.

New construction

No new homes permitted in 2018

No permits for new homes were issued in Lakeside in 2018 or in any year since 2012.

Single-family
01 20122015
0
new homes permitted in 2018
Every year as a table
YearNew homesSingle-family2+ per buildingValue
2018000—
2017000—
2016000—
2015000—
2014000—
2013000—
2012000—

Lakeside's permit office didn't report to the Census in 2018, so the 2018 figures are Census estimates.

Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.

The homes

85% of Lakeside households own their home

Half of Lakeside’s homes were built before 1977.

Owners and renters
Own 85%Rent 15%

Texas: 63% own.

1977
typical home built · TX 1992
$1,875
median property tax bill · TX $4,232
14%
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. New homes: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits 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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