You can buy a cozy starter home for less than the price of an average new car now. Does this mean the "housing crisis" is over yet?
>The average price for a new car is $48,699 in June 2025.
>Prices have not spiked this sharply since April 2020.
https://caredge.com/guides/new-car-price-trends-in-2025

>>509748467 (OP)
looks nice really. lots of space across the road, looks like a park or something. hopefully its not a niggered area though.

>>509748467 (OP)
wtf it's a literal steal
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/324-S-Cottage-St-Kewanee-IL-61443/84774043_zpid/
This will be off the market within a few hours or days

Pennsylvania is probably the best bang for your buck right now imo. The cities are kind of crap for the most part, but they all have nice neighborhoods and are mostly cheap outside of Philadelphia. The countryside is beautiful and mostly cheap as well. The Pittsburgh area, Central Pennsylvania, the Poconos, the Lehigh Valley, and the Lancaster area are still reasonably priced if you want to live somewhere drivable to a city. It’s easily the cheapest East Coast/Highly Populated state.

>>509749688
Old houses in Central Illinois have been cheap for decades. They seem to be immune to the booms and busts of the housing market. I'm from that part of the country and all of my friends bought houses like that, all for under $100k. The weather sucks, but the weather sucks in plenty of other housing markets that are expensive. Those towns are also very safe. There's really no catch other than having to live in a small rural Illinois town that's somewhat far from everything.

As someone that's lived all over the country, I'm strongly considering moving back. The only thing that's keeping me from doing so is that I hate winter.

Even Philadelphia is a lot cheaper than most comparable cities honestly. The city sucks in general but neighborhoods are like Rittenhouse Square and Society Hill are really nice and a fraction of the price of similar New York, Chicago, Washington, Boston, etc. neighborhoods. South Philly, Manayunk, NoLibs, and Fishtown are not as nice but pretty livable as well.

>>509749688
>AS IS

When you see this in a listing, run.

>>509748467 (OP)
>middle of nowhere flyover country
>nearest actual city is 3 hours away
pass

>>509748467 (OP)
Is it fucking haunted or something? I've never, ever in my entire life seen a house this cheap without it being a complete tear down. You wouldn't even have to gut the place, the interior is totally fine. 78% White city too.

>>509750124
Why? What do you think is wrong with it? Even with mold remediation costs this is an insane steal.

>>509750144
>DUDE i just LOVE the hustle and bustle of the big city, it’s so DYNAMIC and makes me feel like i’m in one of my favourite TV SHOWS. you should totally come on down to my studio apartment, it’s got EXPOSED RED BRICK walls and everything, we can crack open a nice hoppy ipa or three and get crazy watching some cartoons on adult swim! and dude, dude, DUDE, we have GOTTA go down to the barcade- listen here, right, it’s a BAR where us ADULTS who do ADULTING can go DRINK. BUT!!!! it’s also an ARCADE like when we were kids, so we can play awesome VIDEO GAMES, without dumb kids bothering us. speaking of which megan and i have finally decided to tie the knot- literally -we’re both getting snipped tomorrow at the hospital, that way we can save money to spent more on ourselves and our FURBABIES. i’m fuckin JACKED man, i’m gonna SLAM this craft beer and pop open another one!!!

>>509750144
The house posted in the OP is near the quad cities, so you're not that far from all the shopping and dining you'd need. Having lived out west for a long time, it honestly feels a lot less isolated than most of that part of the country. Chicago's not that far either, which is honestly the only real city we have in the US other than NYC.

>>509750144
>>nearest actual city is 3 hours away
Chicago, the third largest city in the US, is 2hrs 15mins by Amtrak.
The Amtrak station is walking distance from the house.

>>509750258
That's how rural central Illinois always was. My friend bought a house for $35k only an hour and a half outside of Chicago a few years back. New houses are expensive, but these old ones aren't worth much. I really don't understand why the rest of the country isn't more reasonably priced like Central Illinois is. There's no gotcha to these low prices, a lot of these towns are 99% NH white. Extremely safe.

>>509750412
It's old, houses should be like cars, unless the land goes up a ton in value, the building itself should be worth less. It gets used up, just like a car.

As for why this isn't the phenomenon everywhere else in the US, idk. Apparently it is in Japan.

>>509748467 (OP)
STOP MAKING THIS SAME THREAD
STOP MAKING THIS SAME THREAD
STOP MAKING THIS SAME THREAD

>>509748467 (OP)
it has to be haunted or something