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West coast is so fucked.
You need more than 180k to buy a home in LA too. Maybe if you are married and both make over 140k then you can actually afford an 800k condo.
There must be something wrong with the math that they used here, because I’m familiar with a few of these markets and have a higher salary than what is listed and definetely couldn’t buy a house in those markets without it being more expensive than would be responsible - both in terms of down payment and monthly cost
For example, I think you’d need a lot more than 180k to buy a house in LA
It’s possible they’re including buyable apartments as well as single family houses but 180k still sounds WAY too low for LA
Yeah that could be it, or maybe they’re doing the math as literally “is your monthly take home less than the cost of the monthly payments”. In which case I could see 180 qualifying, but that isn’t how any sane person would define affordability lol
Same with San Jose. 1.6m will get you a 1bd apartment. A 3-4 bd house will run you at least 2.5m
As a European, at first I thought this showed house prices, and not yearly salary required to buy a house and thought: “well, that’s not too bad …”, but oof!
20% down payment is ridiculous these days. For the median home of 370k that’s 74k you need to have lying around.
Double that for Canada
$2,172,613 ($1,586,224.75 USD) if you want a detached in the Vancouver area
Condos bring the average down as they only cost $816,356 ($596,021.52 USD) which is pretty affordable as far as housing is concerned around the city
Good thing wages have kept up with house prices right?
Right?!
Detached homes shouldn’t even exist in Vancouver metrocore anymore so, it makes sense to be a fortune
It was the Vancouver area so it includes the surrounding areas but you are correct
Yeah, I know. It goes from “impossible luxury” to “barely affordable” as you go from downtown towards the edges of the metro region. Just saying that it’s not surprising for Vancouver that those prices are so jacked up.
It may surprise those who don’t live here that 80% of Vancouver proper looks like a sleepy suburb of detached single family homes. It is mostly detached homes here. Even a townhouse can take a decade to build due to NIMBYs.
Is that a new sentinel returns map ?
This is from the 80s right? The price in my area is not even close
It’s not house prices it’s annual income required to buy.
Oh ok totally misread that
