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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 a population of 6,524, 3,853 total housing units (homes and apartments), and a median house value of $700,758, Treasure Island house prices are not only among the most expensive in Florida, Treasure Island real estate also is some of the most expensive in all of America.
Large apartment complexes or high rise apartments are the single most common housing type in Treasure Island, accounting for 43.18% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Treasure Island include single-family detached homes ( 35.71%), duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 11.35%), and a few row houses and other attached homes ( 8.67%). Cities with mostly row houses, apartments, and other high density housing types are relatively uncommon, and characteristic of compact cities that frequently have a downtown or other neighborhoods where amenities are within walking distance and a lot of street life can be seen.
Dwellings in Treasure Island tend to be quite small (one, two, or no bedrooms) and owner occupied. In fact, 68.93% of the homes in Treasure Island have two or fewer bedrooms.
At the end of World War II, American soldiers returned home triumphant and, with the help of the GI Bill, built homes by the millions on the edges of America's cities. These homes were predominantly capes and ranches, modest in size, but built to house a growing middle-class as the 20th century became the American century. Treasure Island's housing was primarily built during this period, from the '40s through the '60s. A full 45.78% of the city's housing hails from this era. Other housing ages represented in Treasure Island include homes built between 1970-1999 ( 43.09%) and housing constructed between 2000 and later ( 6.41%). There's also some housing in Treasure Island built before 1939 ( 4.72%).
A decent proportion of the Treasure Island housing stock is seasonally occupied. That is, homes and condos in Treasure Island are occupied by people for a portion of the year - mainly for vacation purposes - and then locked up and left unoccupied for the remainder of the year as owners return to their primary residences. This characteristic of the Treasure Island housing market speaks to its popularity as a vacation location of choice.
Appreciation rates for homes in Treasure Island have been tracking above average for the last ten years, according to NeighborhoodScout data. The cumulative appreciation rate over the ten years has been 106.02%, which ranks in the top 30% nationwide. This equates to an annual average Treasure Island house appreciation rate of 7.50%.
Over the last year, Treasure Island appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Treasure Island's appreciation rate has been -0.81%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in Treasure Island were at -0.28%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of -1.13%.
Relative to Florida, our data show that Treasure Island's latest annual appreciation rate is lower than 70% of the other cities and towns in Florida.
$700,758
for Florida
for nation
3,853
$2,400 / per month