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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 561,008 people, 239,800 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $336,600, Albuquerque real estate prices are well above average cost compared to national prices.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Albuquerque, accounting for 62.11% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Albuquerque include large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 20.68%), duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 7.96%), and a few row houses and other attached homes ( 5.41%).
The most prevalent building size and type in Albuquerque are three and four bedroom dwellings, chiefly found in single-family detached homes. The city has a mixture of owners and renters, with 59.99% owning and 40.01% renting.
There is a lot of housing in Albuquerque built from 1970 to 1999 so parts of town may have that "Brady Bunch" look of homes popular in the '70s and early '80s, although some of these houses were built up through the early '90s as well. There is also a lot of housing in Albuquerque built between 1940-1969 ( 25.53%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from between 2000 and later ( 22.46%). There's also some housing in Albuquerque built before 1939 ( 3.17%).
Appreciation rates for homes in Albuquerque have been tracking above average for the last ten years, according to NeighborhoodScout data. The cumulative appreciation rate over the ten years has been 88.24%, which ranks in the top 50% nationwide. This equates to an annual average Albuquerque house appreciation rate of 6.53%.
NeighborhoodScout's data show that during the latest twelve months, Albuquerque's appreciation rate, at 5.62%, has been at or slightly above the national average. In the latest quarter, Albuquerque's appreciation rate has been 2.25%, which annualizes to a rate of 9.33%.
Relative to New Mexico, our data show that Albuquerque's latest annual appreciation rate is lower than 60% of the other cities and towns in New Mexico.
One very important thing to keep in mind is that these are average appreciation rates for the city. Individual neighborhoods within Albuquerque differ in their investment potential, sometimes by a great deal. Fortunately, you can use NeighborhoodScout to pinpoint the exact neighborhoods in Albuquerque - 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 Albuquerque real estate investment or home purchase decisions.
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