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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 2,948, 920 total housing units (homes and apartments), and a median house value of $156,862, house prices in Poteet are solidly below the national average.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Poteet, accounting for 64.97% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Poteet include mobile homes or trailers ( 19.65%), duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 11.10%), and a few large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 4.28%).
The most prevalent building size and type in Poteet are three and four bedroom dwellings, chiefly found in single-family detached homes. The city has a mixture of owners and renters, with 59.77% owning and 40.23% renting.
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. Poteet's housing was primarily built during this period, from the '40s through the '60s. A full 36.21% of the city's housing hails from this era. Other housing ages represented in Poteet include homes built between 2000 and later ( 31.85%) and housing constructed between 1970-1999 ( 27.39%). There's also some housing in Poteet built before 1939 ( 4.55%).
Vacant housing appears to be an issue in Poteet. Fully 16.29% of the housing stock is classified as vacant. Left unchecked, vacant Poteet homes and apartments can be a drag on the real estate market, holding Poteet 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, Poteet has experienced some of the highest home appreciation rates of any community in the nation. Poteet real estate appreciated 130.68% over the last ten years, which is an average annual home appreciation rate of 8.72%, putting Poteet in the top 20% nationally for real estate appreciation. If you are a home buyer or real estate investor, Poteet 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, Poteet appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Poteet's appreciation rate has been 2.39%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in Poteet were at -1.46%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of -5.70%.
Notably, Poteet's appreciation rate in the latest quarter is one of the lowest in America.
Relative to Texas, our data show that Poteet's latest annual appreciation rate is lower than 70% of the other cities and towns in Texas.
$156,862
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