Market Data + Trends

Affordable Housing Markets with Decent Job Growth

Houston and Dallas land in the “sweet spot”
March 4, 2015

The Wall Street Journal shares data from a Zillow study that found which housing markets in the U.S. have a good job market and affordable housing.

Texas cities such as Dallas and Houston have been outperforming the rest of the nation in Zillow’s index, fueled mainly by the energy boom. Some cities that ranked well surprised analysts, such as Fort Wayne, Ind., and Grand Rapids, Mich.

Other cities have the worst of both worlds; among those are Atlantic City, N.J., and Santa Fe, N.M.

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