Analytics built by: Location, Inc.
Raw data sources: American Community Survey (U.S. Census Bureau), U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Federal Housing Finance Agency.
Methodology: NeighborhoodScout uses over 600 characteristics to build a neighborhood profile… Read more about Scout's Real Estate Data
With 334,854 people, 131,179 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $399,627, Orlando real estate prices are well above average cost compared to national prices.
Large apartment complexes or high rise apartments are the single most common housing type in Orlando, accounting for 49.75% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Orlando include single-family detached homes ( 31.65%), row houses and other attached homes ( 9.66%), and a few duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 8.69%). This particular housing mix is relatively uncommon and characteristic of cities that are compact and walkable, and which often have a lively downtown.
People in Orlando primarily live in small (one, two or no bedroom) units, chiefly found in large apartment complexes or high rise apartments. Orlando has a mixture of owner-occupied and renter-occupied housing.
Orlando homes and real estate are some of the newest in America. 40.65% of Orlando's housing was built since 2000, making the city have a very new look and feel. If you like the amenities of newer homes and subdivisions, then you will probably like what the Orlando real estate market has to offer. Quite a bit of the housing here was also built between 1970-1999 ( 38.97%), and between 1940-1969 ( 17.80%). There's also some housing in Orlando built before 1939 ( 2.59%).
Vacant housing appears to be an issue in Orlando. Fully 11.81% of the housing stock is classified as vacant. Left unchecked, vacant Orlando homes and apartments can be a drag on the real estate market, holding Orlando real estate prices below levels they could achieve if vacant housing was absorbed into the market and became occupied. Housing vacancy rates are a useful measure to consider, along with other things, if you are a home buyer or a real estate investor.
In the last 10 years, Orlando has experienced some of the highest home appreciation rates of any community in the nation. Orlando real estate appreciated 134.24% over the last ten years, which is an average annual home appreciation rate of 8.88%, putting Orlando in the top 10% nationally for real estate appreciation. If you are a home buyer or real estate investor, Orlando definitely has a track record of being one of the best long term real estate investments in America through the last ten years.
Over the last year, Orlando appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Orlando's appreciation rate has been 0.10%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in Orlando were at -0.82%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of -3.24%.
Relative to Florida, our data show that Orlando's latest annual appreciation rate is lower than 50% of the other cities and towns in Florida.
One very important thing to keep in mind is that these are average appreciation rates for the city. Individual neighborhoods within Orlando differ in their investment potential, sometimes by a great deal. Fortunately, you can use NeighborhoodScout to pinpoint the exact neighborhoods in Orlando - or in any city or town - that have the best track record of real estate appreciation, by the latest quarter, the last year, 2 years, 5 years, 10 years, or even since 2000, to assist you in making the best Orlando real estate investment or home purchase decisions.
$399,627
for Florida
for nation
131,179
$2,425 / per month