全美最抢手的十个地方，房子都不便宜——因为几乎没房可卖

This year, houses in America have got expensive again.

In roughly eighty percent of places, prices are higher than last year.

The biggest rise was in the Northeast.

There, an ordinary house costs five hundred and forty thousand dollars.

So where do Americans most want to buy?

The cheap places?

No.

In the places people most want to buy, houses are not cheap at all.

So why does everyone still want to go there?

Because in those places there is almost nothing for sale.

In these areas, the houses for sale are sixty percent fewer than before the pandemic.

Across America the average is only ten percent fewer.

Few listings, many buyers — and things change.

One house comes on the market, a lot of people go and see it together, and bid together.

In nine cases out of ten, the final price is higher than the asking price.

Across America, houses generally sell for less than the asking price.

That is the difference.

Where are these areas?

Not in the south, and not in the west.

All in the Northeast, and all in the suburbs of big cities.

What they have in common: not far from the city, easy to commute, and bigger houses than in town.

Think about it: would you move further out from the city for a bigger house?