US Markets · 2026

The state of American real estate.

Every figure on this page comes from a real publisher — NAR, FHFA, Case-Shiller, Freddie Mac, US Census, BLS, Realtor.com, Zillow — or from our own cached live queries against ATTOM and the MLS feed. We never substitute placeholder data.

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Section 1 · National

United States at a glance

Latest published monthly / quarterly figures from public sources. Each card credits its publisher.
Section 2 · SwankHaus Index

Average across — tracked luxury markets

Weighted average across the metros SwankHaus actively tracks. Skews higher than national since we cover the luxury tier.
Section 3 · Signals

Where money & people are moving

Top 5 markets across four lenses. Click any city row to filter listings.
Section 4 · Plot & ranking

Affordability vs yield, all markets ranked

Hover any dot to see the metro. Click any heat-strip row to open that market.
Affordability × Gross Yield
X-axis: price-to-income multiple (lower = more affordable). Y-axis: estimated gross rental yield. Dot color reflects net migration (warm = inflow, cool = outflow).
All tracked metros · sortable
Click any column header to sort. Source column flags whether each row uses live ATTOM data, a lake snapshot, or a curated public-aggregate baseline.
City Median $ $/sqft YoY 5y CAGR Yield Cap DOM Mig% Src
Section 5 · Plain English

What these numbers actually mean

For underwriters: skip ahead. For everyone else: this is the same math the institutions use, plain-language.
Median Home Price

The middle price across all homes that sold. Half the homes sold for more, half for less. Better than an average because it isn't pulled by mansions or fire sales.

$ / sqft

How much each square foot of a home costs in that market. The fastest way to compare two cities — a $500K home in one city might be a $200/sqft deal, in another it's $900.

YoY change

"Year over year." How much prices moved versus the same month a year ago. Positive means the market is appreciating; negative means it's softening.

5-year CAGR

Compound annual growth rate over five years — the smoothed annual appreciation rate. Better signal of underlying market strength than any single year.

Gross Yield

Annual rent ÷ home value. A quick proxy for how productive the asset is. 5–6% is healthy for a long-term hold; below 3% means you're banking on price appreciation.

Cap Rate

Net operating income ÷ home value. Same idea as yield, but after expenses (taxes, insurance, maintenance, vacancy). What institutional buyers actually quote each other.

Days on Market (DOM)

Median time from listing to going under contract. Low (under 25) = seller's market. High (over 60) = buyer's market.

Net Migration %

People moving in minus people moving out, as a percentage of population. A 1% net inflow in a 1M-person metro is 10,000 new residents — that's real housing demand.

Affordability multiple

Median price ÷ median household income. Below 3× is historically affordable; 5× is stretched; 8×+ means most local incomes can't buy.

Section 6 · Methodology

How this data is built

Source attribution is mandatory. We never invent numbers.
Source mix · this view
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Per-metric attribution

    Data refreshes every five minutes via /api/markets/dashboard. Live cells are direct from ATTOM / MLS feed. Lake cells are snapshots from a prior live response (durable across restarts). Curated cells use the latest published public-aggregate baseline.