{"id":70840,"date":"2025-07-17T20:49:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T20:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/70840\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T20:49:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T20:49:11","slug":"rochester-buffalo-among-most-affordable-u-s-housing-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/70840\/","title":{"rendered":"Rochester, Buffalo Among Most Affordable U.S. Housing Markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We love you, New York City\u2014but between the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/newyork\/news\/a-new-map-shows-where-new-yorkers-rent-increased-the-most-by-subway-stop-071425\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sky-high rents<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/newyork\/restaurants\/best-cheap-eats-in-nyc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$20 sandwiches<\/a>, it\u2019s no secret that the cost of living here can feel, well, severely unaffordable. That\u2019s the actual term used by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newgeography.com\/files\/Demographia-International-Housing-Affordability-2025-Edition.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">2025 Demographia International Housing Affordability report<\/a>, which just ranked metro New York as one of the priciest housing markets in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>But here\u2019s the plot twist: A few other New York towns made the opposite end of the list.<\/p>\n<p>Further upstate, Rochester and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/buffalo\/things-to-do\/best-things-to-do-in-buffalo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Buffalo<\/a> both landed in the top 15 most affordable housing markets in the country, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/newyork\/news\/this-new-york-county-is-one-of-the-hottest-places-to-move-to-in-the-us-says-new-study-052025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rochester coming in at No.\u00a04<\/a> and Buffalo tied for No.\u00a012. The study uses something called the \u201cmedian multiple\u201d\u2014basically, the ratio of home prices to local incomes\u2014to measure how affordable a place really is. Rochester scored a 3.6 and Buffalo a 4.0, making them moderately unaffordable but still light years ahead of New York City\u2019s jaw-dropping 7.4 rating.<\/p>\n<p>Translation: If you want to buy a house without selling your soul (or your sneaker collection), upstate might be the move.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/newyork\/news\/this-new-york-city-suburb-was-named-the-best-place-to-live-in-the-whole-state-060525\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This New York City suburb was named the best place to live in the whole state<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Other cities topping the affordability list include Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Cleveland, Ohio; and St. Louis, Missouri, while the usual suspects\u2014San Jose and Los Angeles in California and Honolulu in Hawaii\u2014rounded out the bottom. New York City wasn\u2019t quite the worst, but the Big Apple certainly wasn\u2019t far off.<\/p>\n<p>The report also notes a growing trend: People are ditching big-ticket cities in favor of smaller, more affordable ones where their paychecks go further, all while giving you the conveniences of modern urbanism. So if you&#8217;ve ever dreamed of swapping your fifth-floor walk-up for a driveway and a backyard? You\u2019ve got options\u2014and they\u2019re still in New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We love you, New York City\u2014but between the sky-high rents and $20 sandwiches, it\u2019s no secret that the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":70841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,15292,405,403,15293,5226,5225,5228,5227,4329,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-70840","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-categories-real-estate","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-news-real-estate","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-real-estate","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114870548115665537","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}