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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 3,217 people, 1,835 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $629,504, real estate costs in Nokomis are among some of the highest in the nation, although house prices here don't compare to real estate prices in the most expensive Florida communities.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Nokomis, accounting for 53.03% of the town's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Nokomis include mobile homes or trailers ( 38.05%), duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 4.82%), and a few large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 2.23%).
Dwellings in Nokomis tend to be quite small (one, two, or no bedrooms) and owner occupied. In fact, 75.79% of the homes in Nokomis have two or fewer bedrooms.
There is a lot of housing in Nokomis 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 Nokomis built between 1940-1969 ( 23.67%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from between 2000 and later ( 10.38%). There's also some housing in Nokomis built before 1939 ( 3.23%).
Vacant housing appears to be an issue in Nokomis. Fully 16.48% of the housing stock is classified as vacant. Left unchecked, vacant Nokomis homes and apartments can be a drag on the real estate market, holding Nokomis 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, Nokomis has experienced some of the highest home appreciation rates of any community in the nation. Nokomis real estate appreciated 150.62% over the last ten years, which is an average annual home appreciation rate of 9.62%, putting Nokomis in the top 10% nationally for real estate appreciation. If you are a home buyer or real estate investor, Nokomis 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, Nokomis appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Nokomis's appreciation rate has been 2.21%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in Nokomis were at -1.60%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of -6.26%.
Notably, Nokomis's appreciation rate in the latest quarter is one of the lowest in America.
Relative to Florida, our data show that Nokomis's latest annual appreciation rate is lower than 70% 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 town. Individual neighborhoods within Nokomis differ in their investment potential, sometimes by a great deal. Fortunately, you can use NeighborhoodScout to pinpoint the exact neighborhoods in Nokomis - 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 Nokomis real estate investment or home purchase decisions.
$629,504
for Florida
for nation
1,835
$2,447 / per month