What is the price of a "starter home" in your area?

Within 5 miles of my neighborhood
$600k
2200 sqft
3 bed 3 bath

New Construction is more like $700-800k 1800-2400sqft and on a tiny lot (less than 9000sqft).

Across the bay from Mobile, AL starter homes that did not need a bunch of work were in the $175,000 range. The past 3 years they just keep going up. The same homes are $300,000+ now.

I wouldn’t buy a home right now. Today sure has a 2008 feeling to it. I’m not saying the economy is going to collapse, but I believe the housing market will correct itself and pricing will go down. This kind of pricing is not sustainable for the lower middle class with these kind of interest rates. I paid $265,000 for my home 7 years ago. It’s nothing fancy. Just a 2,500 Sq Ft semi custom built home in a good area if you have kids. My neighbor took a job out of state and sold his home for $420,000. Look, I like my neighborhood but that house in no way, shape, or form is worth that much money. The neighbor on the other side retired, downsized, and sold his home for $480,000, but that house has a pool. Since you can’t get a pool built in a timely manner around here right now, pools are actually paying for themselves because families with kids are scarfing them up. I think when the market corrects itself there will be some serious bargains out there.

$279,000, 2000 square feet, Livingston Parish. It’s my house and i bought it for $192,000 in 2010. I’m glad i’m not trying to buy it today. ETA it’s in a desirable location for LP and was originally built as a “finisher house”, where retirees would downsize. But as they, well, move on, the neighborhood is taken over by young families starting out.

I don't want to talk about it

But then again I'm in Nashville.

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Probably around $320k-$400k.

Around 2400+sqft.

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Good lord. To me a starter home is 1 or 2 bedrooms.

A home to raise 4 kids in and grow old and die in used to be a 2 bedroom 1500 Sq ft house.

550-600. 1300-1500 sqft 3 bed 1 bath.