The Best Real Estate Market in America

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The Best Real Estate Market in America

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The acceleration of the rising prices for residential real estate has started to slow. In some cities, more and more sellers have begun to cut prices. As the market softens, a few cities will still have robust home markets. At the top of the list is Hartford, Connecticut, one of America’s old financial centers, which has lost much of the industry that made it prosper.
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In its recent The 10 Real Estate Markets That Will Dominate in 2023, Realtor.com looked at metro areas where home prices will rise next year and, at the same time, home unit sales will rise.
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All the cities on the list are midsized, and most have their best days, economically, behind them.

In contrast to the cities on the new Realtor.com list, its national forecast shows that home prices will drop 5.4% nationwide and unit sales will collapse by 14.1%. Realtor.com Chief Economist Danielle Hale commented: “They are very affordable markets. These are areas where your housing dollars really stretch further.”
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In Hartford, unit sales growth should increase by 6.5% and prices should rise by 8.5%, for a combined growth rate of 15%. Other older American business centers on the list include Worcester, Massachusetts, with a growth rate of 13.1%; Buffalo, New York, (12.3%); Grand Rapids, Michigan, (11.6%): and Toledo, Ohio, (10.9%).
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Some cities listed have been beaten up for decades as the major corporation engines of their economic successes have faded. Most of these were part of the industrial age that ran from early last century into the 1980s and 1990s. The home markets may be attractive, but the health of the cities will not recover much.

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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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