Baton Rouge has been named among the easiest metros in the country to buy a home.
Amid the nation’s low housing inventory, it appears that some of the most affordable U.S.cities may be the toughest places to buy a home, The Washington Post reports. While San Francisco’s and Seattle’s appearance on the list of the toughest metros to buy a home may not surprise anyone, others such as Buffalo; Rochester, New York; Milwaukee; and Columbus, Ohio; may.
The top three easiest markets for finding a home are all in Florida: Cape Coral-Fort Myers, with 38 listings per 1,000 households; followed by the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach market, with 32 listings per 1,000 households; and Daytona Beach, which has 31 listings per 1,000 households.
In Baton Rouge, there were 19.2 listings per 1,000 households, ranking it as the 11th easiest market to buy a home, just below the New York City-Jersey City-Newark, New Jersey, area. To come up with its findings, Realtor.com looked at the number of listings per 1,000 homeowner-occupied households in the 100 largest metros in the fourth quarter of 2019. The analysis was based on the number of homes for sale relative to the local population.
