What kind of house can you buy for 400,000 in your city (compared, places)

[TarHeelNick]

Originally Posted by Gaylord_Focker

Not being argumentative. But my Pearland home is almost twice the size of the Fuquay house. Houston metro seems to have the most value for sure

Not taken as argumentative! Raleigh/The Triangle is NOT an "affordable" area anymore. It's had above-average housing prices for at least a decade. The days of it being the "cheap but high-earning" locale are gone; especially since the pandemic. Homes here are less expensive than the West Coast and some of the Northeast metros... but that's pretty much it now. Property taxes are still a good bit lower than Texas and the midwest/northeast though.

[Das_Interwebz]

Addressing cheaper homes even newer in say a large Texas metro. Besides land that can be cheaper, still many factors add to the cost that northern cities had like FULL-FOUNDATIONS/BASEMENTS that if a full walk-out and water-proofed foundation constructed today. It is quite pricey in leading up to testing soils etc. and if a special additional aspect for certain soils is in need.

This is how high the cost can be for a type of basement many of these Chicago homes have and cost to build today. Though basic basement foundations without cost leading up to it are lower. The full-basement is not cheap water-proofed and the raised aspect. To pour a basement concrete foundation costs anywhere from $24,000 to $148,000. This price depends on the type of basement foundation you need and the size of your project. There are cheaper varieties with foundations, but not with all the desires of added wiring, plumbing for any type of finishing a basement.

These prices don't include any finishes you’ll do to turn your basement into a liveable space. Basement Waterproofing and drainage systems are important for keeping your basement hangout space dry (they’re also less expensive and easier to add when building).

Finishing the basement costs a lot more than leaving it unfinished, but it improves a home’s resale value and provides you with tons of space to create that home bar, movie theater, or anything else your heart desires.


I looked into the inner-loop northwest of downtown Houston Since I post homes northwest of downtown Chicago. Here are homes northwest of downtown Houston. An example of a nice new-build nothing McMansiony on the outside look. Smaller than a Chicago standard lot as they sub-divided lots to get more homes in.


Still nice looking and roomy a main living area over a garage does protect from flooding threats if any. This inner-loop northwest of downtown Houston new-construction sub-divided lot smaller even than a standard Chicago lot of 3.500 sq/ft vs these new Houston homes at 2,070 sq/ft.

Still nice homes and if this is superior than a Northern city home it is anyone's option along with older Houston ranches that have years/decades of more life in them till developers buy them out though many are not at that lower price-point worth their destruction? Unless they sub-divide their larger lots as these.

https://www.redfin.com/TX/Houston/34...home/190312419

These new Houston inner-loop homes are with a HOA they call low at $99/Monthly, does not give tax amount. A standard Chicago lot is like 3,500 sq/ft. These new Houston ones are 1.900 sq/ft. Still nice homes over a garage in a car-dependent area.

https://www.redfin.com/TX/Houston/61...home/189015815

These are nearby older Ranch homes still worthy of love and years more of life and much larger lots. LOVE this part of Houston has SOARING TREES all around.

https://www.redfin.com/TX/Houston/47.../home/30066304

This is even lower in price also a nice leafy setting and sure it does not look like a McMansion. Still lots of life in it also hopefully.

https://www.redfin.com/TX/Houston/50.../home/30067176


I will still do some Chicago homes northwest of downtown also up to 10 miles. These are some STILL GREAT and an offering that soon will dry up if cost continues to rise up to 10% a year in Chicago and most suburban areas. These in-city urban neighborhoods still give green fronts and yards and garages most times. This home was well-maintained long-time owners as no previous owner listed so far back. The kitchen in one of the better views has great cabinets in keeper condition, needs an island I keep saying for homes and I would like to see sliding doors to the deck out back.

The retro-basement with part in someone's handiwork with a glass block bar is a keeper portion in the pictures finished basement and has a fireplace there. The outside deck with roof new condition non-wood floor and shows a hot-tub and the yard is manicured with a privacy fence on one side and the usual 2-car garage into the alley in back.

Looks like all new concrete pavements in the yard and front and concrete steps. The layout of the floors tells me that a bedroom and living room in front of the home could have a open-floor plan created and dining room next to the kitchen in the back used for something else and if a new open front of the home was opened? A dining part could still be there. This is up to a new owner and structural possibilities.

Built in 1947.
1.645 sq/ft. Not sure if it includes the basement.
- SELLING PRICE - $369,000. No last sold date long time owner.

https://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/51.../home/13503600

The Streetview.
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9745...8192?entry=ttu

The back alley with garage.
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9744...8192?entry=ttu


This is a home set back in time. But so well maintained it has its original kitchen, bathrooms and everything. Still just a paint job and cover the busy wallpaper in the kitchen LOL. Still is a move-in condition home to even gradually upgrade it. Home maintained in so much as it was originally built especially the bathrooms shows how well these owners treated it all.

Check out the yellow bathrooms and tub, toilet and sink from 1971 and in this condition these people were clearly meticulously clean shown in the interior photos. The basement is Unfinished though CLEAN and PROUDLY shows its steel beam most homes going way back still had built into them if brick especially.

Steel beam showing in its unfinished open basement, but clean.
https://ssl.cdn-redfin.com/photo/68/...91181_18_0.jpg

Built in 1971.
Public Facts say it was built as a 1.272 sq/ft home.
- SELLING PRICE - 325,000. No last selling price long time owner.

https://www.redfin.com/IL/Norridge/4.../home/13553300

Its streetview.
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9557...8192?entry=ttu

Garage and alley.
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9556...8192?entry=ttu


This home is also in Norridge with good schools and this is a "RARE SLAB HOME" not too common. Almost unusual to see a home main floor ground-level. All nice hardwood floors, very nice rich cherry cabinets and island this time. Has a porch/balcony second floor overlooking is yard and area. Bedrooms have upstairs carpeted great shape. MOVE-IN-READY with upgrades. If this had a basement especially finished? I would say this would be closer to $500,000?

Built in 1948 surprisingly.
1.654 sq/ft.
- SELLING PRICE $399,000.
Last sold way back in good ole 1994 for a whopping $98.000. In part having no basement seen as a bit inferior at least then.

https://www.redfin.com/IL/Norridge/4.../home/13553611

Streetview with a park maybe across.
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9564...8192?entry=ttu


This cute mid-century has a side driveway, but no garage. Larger than usual Chicago yard all grass ready for whatever, no back deck either. Still the home has that timeless look unusual in brown brick front. The kitchen has its original cabinets painted white. Not bad at all for move-in-condition.nic Full Finished basement nice upgraded bath built there, but looks like no kitchen a big rec-room and storage/laundry. Always nice if a modest size home has these added spaces for extended family a private space too. Probably all its original hardwood floors.

Built in 1956.
2,423 sq/ft seems to count the finished basement portion.
- SELLING PRICE $449,900.
Last sold in 2007 JUST BEFORE THE CRASH for $340,000 (inflated price then hence the Crash).

https://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/49.../home/13500508

Streetview.
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9709...8192?entry=ttu


This home is in Hermosa neighborhood where gentrification has entered, but is still more Hispanic as a Puerto Rican area of a Mexican dominated city for Hispanics.

A very early 20th century Worker's Cottage built for the masses of emerging Middle-class blue-collar workers and loads of immigrants who were arriving. These homes professionals still love to redo. This home is redone for the MULTI-GENERATIONAL FAMILY who wants grandma and or grandpa there and a basement flat and for the teen son or daughter who does not want to leave home. The top floor for them.

This home has a FULL-finished basement with a kitchen/bath as a in-law suite/granny-flat or son/daughter staying at home with its own laundry. The Main floor has a all White upgraded kitchen.Update bath with laundry. The top floor has its bath and they call it a eating area, which is just a stove and refrigerator and table but no regular cabinets. Together they are saying 7-bedrooms and 3 baths, 2- kitchens and on eat-in area.

Built in 1910 though Public facts read 1906.
2,351 sq/ft probably including the finished basement half above ground anyway.
- SELLING PRICE - $369,000. Still a nice leafy neighborhood, bit less green-frontage still trees and nice yard with a 2-car garage in the back alley.

https://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/20.../home/13423268

Streetview.
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9177...8192?entry=ttu

Alleyway and garage.
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9178...8192?entry=ttu

[Das_Interwebz]

Again with some homes. We need other cities too.

This area I generally would not post from, yet this home had AWESOME UPGRADES to a 100+yr old home that I am choosing here with a lower price-point in an African-American neighborhood on Chicago's farther Southside of Chatham. Bungalow-belt neighborhood mostly built in the 1920s Roaring 20s of Al Capone and he lived in a nearby neighborhood.

Sadly, it gets crime labels, yet still looks great for its housing stock. Plenty of respectable people maintain homes they live in and live normal lives. Homes built with a required quality point and central heating for the new middle-class. Had zoning that was new and standard lots that added a deeper frontage look for the front-lawn effect. Still standard yards shrunk a bit as people built garages added at some point.

I am all for saving our single-homes as once gone they just might stay gone and much higher price-point vs upgrades to these older homes.

This home is HIGHLY UPGRADED INSIDE with some of the BEST UPGRADES I saw proving these older homes clearly can and will be upgraded as they lasted for 100yrs and look great yet on streets with front lawns and trees and modest yards with garages off alleys still great for urban living with suburban traits still present by having a great street-grid. It has the fully finished basement looking great in the same colors with its rafters exposed painted dark gray vs covering it I am seeking a lot of now. Bathrooms high-end redos etc.

Built in 1921 just before NYC sent Chicago Al Capone to Chicago.
2,400 sq/ft with a fully finished basement and great choices in the IN color schemes.
- SELLING PRICE - 350,000 as homes here are cheaper and taxes vs the North side.
Bought for $126,000 in 2023 and great upgrades.

https://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/80.../home/13226337

Streetview shows a typical 1920s bungalow area still looking great.
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.7484...8192?entry=ttu


These back to the Northside I am more familiar with. This bungalow again has nice upgrades all hardwood flooring most original features seem gone for new upgrades. Nice upgraded kitchen with a full-open, fully finished basement in light gray that is carpeted in the same color. Looks great though as all new for the new buyer. Nice backyard with usual 2-car garage facing the alley and a patio off the garage.

Built in 1925.
1,187 sq/ft without the finished basement.
- SELLING PRICE - $399,900.

https://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/48.../home/13500830

Streetview leafy block.
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9700...8192?entry=ttu


This home is lower-end, but fully upgraded. A maintained Georgian home. Listed as a 2-bedroom though its basement can add whatever being fully finished for a rec room/bedrooms looks like for a bar also. Upstairs has its original hardwood floors it looks like. Not sure if there is dust on the floor? Still even if refinished they look in good shape.

Upgraded kitchen smallish baths though upgraded. A mostly enclosed staircase to the second floor. Nice back yard with 1.5 car garage in the alley and back deck.

Built in 1948.
1,334 sq/ft not counting the finished basement.
- SELLING PRICE - $334,500

https://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/62.../home/13468350

The streetview standard Chi neighborhood layout and shutters/door now light blue vs here.
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9511...8192?entry=ttu


This I will add as OVER the price newer-built home in 2008. Full Brick construction not just veneers and Super-sized home that of course count here its raised lower-level. Brick effects are what the Tudor deluxe gingerbread homes got. Gorgeous full U Cherry custom Cabinetry in the kitchen with a nice Island. 2-full fireplaces.

Living room higher ceiling with a chandelier and one of its large fireplaces. Large baths and high end Oak looking doors. Higher price-point of course and has a home looks like the same build but different look next door in a mid-century neighborhood.

Built in 2008.
Whopping 4,050 sq/ft with full lower-level.
- SELLING PRICE - $695,000.

https://www.redfin.com/IL/Harwood-He.../home/13555473

Its streetview.
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9689...8192?entry=ttu


Going back 100 years since each home above/below was built.

This is an even OLDER CHICAGO HOME as an early 20th century Blue-Collar Worker's Cottage home built before the bungalow-belt era and this one not brick. Irving Park neighborhood closer to the lakefront with gentrification. Good upgrades and full-finished basement.

Calling it 6-bedrooms 2-main floor, 3 upstairs and one in the finished basement and bath on each floor with the one having a many decades old Pink and black tile still looking like a great wall. Nice Kitchen good amount of cabinets painted. The Full-Finished basement has a kitchen also and looks like its own living quarters for extended family if one chose that.

Great looking back patio out back, nice yard and 2-car garage in alley. Solid old homes have plenty of decades of life left and once these are gone for multi-residential housing they would be gone.

All nice upgrades finished basement for in-city living thatneedout back not die.

SAVE OUR OLD SOLID SINGLES.

Built in 1908 (year my grandmothe. was born gone now) not this home and plenty others.
1,900 sq/ft may include the finished lower-level?
- SELLING PRICE - $424,900.
No last sold date.

https://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/41...home/185675740

Street view along with other homes of the era PROUDLY STANDING with plenty of life in them on a leafy block standard city lots.
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9571...8192?entry=ttu

Its back alley with garage.
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9567...8192?entry=ttu

[achtung baby]

Came across this house randomly. While the zip code apparently only has median household income of $50k range and on the east side of Houston (translation: not very desirable, lower SES.) but I would live in this house with no problem. (It actually looks very similar to my current house. I know exactly what I would decorate it if it were my house.) Only $105 per square foot, boasts 4751 sft AND a pool house that’s 1000 sft big. Built in 1974, my Father(real estate developer) always said properties built in the 1970’s were the most sturdy and well-designed. After the ‘70s the quality went down.

Hate the carpet on the stairs and in the bedrooms, some kitchen and bathroom counter tops and cabinets are a bit dated looking, I can do without the outdoor hot tub, some cosmetic job is needed throughout, the power line in the backyard kills the look and too bad you could see some neighbors’ roof.-other than these the house is so stately and symmetrical looking.

All under half of a million.

https://apps.realtor.com/mUAZ/nhczji9e

[CamThomas]

Originally Posted by achtung baby

Came across this house randomly. While the zip code apparently only has median household income of $50k range and on the east side of Houston (translation: not very desirable, lower SES.) but I would live in this house with no problem. (It actually looks very similar to my current house. I know exactly what I would decorate it if it were my house.) Only $105 per square foot, boasts 4751 sft AND a pool house that’s 1000 sft big. Built in 1974, my Father(real estate developer) always said properties built in the 1970’s were the most sturdy and well-designed. After the ‘70s the quality went down.

Hate the carpet on the stairs and in the bedrooms, some kitchen and bathroom counter tops and cabinets are a bit dated looking, I can do without the outdoor hot tub, some cosmetic job is needed throughout, the power line in the backyard kills the look and too bad you could see some neighbors’ roof.-other than these the house is so stately and symmetrical looking.

All under half of a million.

https://apps.realtor.com/mUAZ/nhczji9e

That first pic is stunning. It looks like a plantation house almost.

[AZLiam]

Originally Posted by achtung baby

Came across this house randomly. While the zip code apparently only has median household income of $50k range and on the east side of Houston (translation: not very desirable, lower SES.) but I would live in this house with no problem. (It actually looks very similar to my current house. I know exactly what I would decorate it if it were my house.) Only $105 per square foot, boasts 4751 sft AND a pool house that’s 1000 sft big. Built in 1974, my Father(real estate developer) always said properties built in the 1970’s were the most sturdy and well-designed. After the ‘70s the quality went down.

Hate the carpet on the stairs and in the bedrooms, some kitchen and bathroom counter tops and cabinets are a bit dated looking, I can do without the outdoor hot tub, some cosmetic job is needed throughout, the power line in the backyard kills the look and too bad you could see some neighbors’ roof.-other than these the house is so stately and symmetrical looking.

All under half of a million.

https://apps.realtor.com/mUAZ/nhczji9e

Wow. What a steal. So much potential.

[Das_Interwebz]

All nice homes posted previously. As long as we realize a home being older doesn't mean it cannot look new in upgrades and saving a home that is built well enough to have plenty more life in them.

As I usually do, some more Chicago city homes that caught my eye in homes I find attractive in upgrades, original features and architecture of what this city was building in a variety of eras. Some Chicago homes in the price-range. Some over $400,000 and some under it.


JUST WENT CONTINGENT TODAY as I was checking if my link worked here in JUST 4-DAYS.

This is an ENGLISH-STYLE home Tudor-type to me. Not fully given the Gingerbread look of extra brick decorations and oval entrances etc. This home has full upgrades and its FULL-Finished basement looking good on a corner lot with the usual city 2-car garage though being a corner it has driveway along its side vs the back alley. ALL UPGRADED.

Great custom kitchen with white cabinets and browntowns granite and tile. Hard-floors through the home. Special custom-built back fully enclosed ALL Wood Deck with an additional built one off the garage also and full newer privacy fence.

The Fully-finished basement is carpeted with a still nice wood paneling that most might keep or it could be painted with divided rooms for bedrooms and as a living space on its own even and a FULL Large Kitchen in white also in the basement.

Proof of how WELL-BUILT these city homes were is in

CHECK OUT these photos of its attic RAFTERS and SHOWS CINDER-BLOCK with BRICK LAYERS CONSTRUCTION and NO STICK-WOOD. The Rafters are built like a Cathedral and block walls. This attic portion is unfinished but so clean.

https://ssl.cdn-redfin.com/photo/68/...26006_31_1.jpg

https://ssl.cdn-redfin.com/photo/68/...26006_30_1.jpg

Built in 1953.
2.671 sq/ft probably counting this fully finished basement.

- SELLING PRICE - $385,000
Last sold in 1998 for $145,000.

https://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/56.../home/13464656

Streetview from front and other homes looking great.
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9440...8192?entry=ttu

THE SIDE being a corner home in streetview showing its brick 2-car garage, its privacy fence and back enclosed deck/porch from the alley entrance. https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9435...8192?entry=ttu


THIS HOME ALSO JUST WENT CONTINGENT TODAY AND WAS NOT YESTERDAY AFTER JUST 4-DAYS.

Now this TUDOR home DOES HAVE a bit more GINGERBREAD LOOK and generally gains a premium. This home has a lot of its original features and wood-floors that probably need refinishing. So this home will need some attention despite being so intact and fully worth doing. This home has a wood-burning fireplace in the living room.

The Kitchen is updated in white and brown tone granite. It has an all wood sunroom A formal dining room and appears that this home has 2-stairways to its second level.

This home suffers by not having a finished basement and lowers its value also. Still great bones for an upgrade that someone may take on. It also only has a 1-car attached garage.

Built in 1939.
1,291 sq/ft.
- SELLING PRICE - $399,900

https://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/48.../home/13499704

Streetview of its really BEAUTIFUL very leafy neighborhood with soaring trees.
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9810...8192?entry=ttu


This Home is a BUNGALOW built very early 20th century and appears Meticulously maintained since so much of its original Gorgeous woodworkings including built in dining room cabinets it is all RESTORED AND STUNNING with all upgrades and some original hardwood floors.

A Custom built wood Kitchen cabinets to match the woodworkings refinished of the original home. Nice newer open back deck also to a nice grass yard with new concrete yard and front. There is a additional all wood back room before the sliding doors to the deck with wood vaulted ceilings with skylights also.

CHECK OUT its Dining room photo with all its original refinished wood and the BUILT IN HUTCH appears original and awesome.

https://ssl.cdn-redfin.com/photo/68/...017417_5_0.jpg

The original Wood features once a fake fireplace with bookshelves and now gas.

https://ssl.cdn-redfin.com/photo/68/...017417_2_0.jpg

Built way back in 1913 so an early Chicago bungalow not brick.
1,650 sq/ft. Without the basement. Still not sure with an addition the Public facts state this home had 1,802 sq/ft. ?

- SELLING PRICE - $415,000.
Last sold for 2010 for $244,000.

https://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/56.../home/13465605

Streetview.
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9495...8192?entry=ttu

Back alley with garage.
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9499...8192?entry=ttu


THIS HOME WENT CONTINGENT continues to show in a few days ago less than a week.

Very nice Brick CAPE COD home and really nice yard landscaped front and back a really nice deck and all upgraded main floor in wood floors and tile kitchen in white. Another thing that STANDS OUT FOR THIS HOME is ITS FINISHED BASEMENT.

Why is it is so unique in this owner appears to have taken the stairway and wood walls and cabinets of what looks like a VICTORIAN home's Parlor and reconstructed it in his basement here.

These are photos of the man-cave VICTORIAN BASEMENT.

https://ssl.cdn-redfin.com/photo/68/...18913_13_0.jpg

https://ssl.cdn-redfin.com/photo/68/...18913_14_0.jpg

Built in 1951.
1,672 sq/ft.

- SELLING PRICE - $459,000.
Last sold in 2006 just Before the Crash for $409,000.

https://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/57.../home/13509822

Its streetview.
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9847...8192?entry=ttu

Streetview of its side and privacy fence to the garage. https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9847...8192?entry=ttu


This home is a nice MID-CENTURY Chicago home. Really Great Quality Upgrades and hardwood floors most original and has 3 bathrooms. I had a Wood Custom-build kitchen with one bath to match is custom cabinetry.

It has a Fully Finished Basement in a beige color paneling that does not look bad but could be painted and Fully carpeted in a beige carpet.

Built in 1957, 1,150 sq/ft NOT-Including it fully finished basement.

- SELLING PRICE - $449,000.
Last sold in 1999 for $189,000.

https://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/53.../home/13503253

An Aerial photo from the listing over the home and its neighborhood with downtown Chicago in the background.

https://ssl.cdn-redfin.com/photo/68/...25331_34_0.jpg

Streetview of its back alley and garage.
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9776...8192?entry=ttu


This is a more traditional place MID-CENTURY CORNER RANCH all upgraded and Fully finished basement with wood flooring and open stairway to the basement and full wood Kitchen with bar. Its main floor is all hardwood floors looking great and a super-nice all wood full U All wood Kitchen and granite. All move-in upgraded conditions for sure.

Built in 1959.
1,143 sq/ft NOT including its fully finished basement.
- SELLING PRICE - $479,900.

https://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/85.../home/13557975

The streetview. https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9731...8192?entry=ttu


This home is another Favorite CLASSIC Chicago MID-CENTURY looking still as new. It has an all White updated kitchen and quartz and a Fully finished basement that is tiled and has an open wood staircase going down to it.

There is also a Deluxe KITCHEN in the Basement in nice wood and brown-tone granite counter-top still a lot of cabinets there also. A larger Bathroom in the basement also. There is a deck out back in gray not blue and an above-ground pool if one wanted it.

Built in 1967.
1,248 sq/ft Without the basement fully finished.

- SELLING PRICE - $499,999.
Last sold in 2005 for $375,000.

Its streetview.
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9424...8192?entry=ttu

The alley and garage. https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9423...8192?entry=ttu


This Home HAS NO BASEMENT and JUST HAS A ENCAPSULATED (waterproofed) CRAWL SPACE and it lowers considerably its value despite a nice home. It has a much higher possibly older home on its right and Mid-Century with standard steps up to the main floor therefore a basement as others seem to have.

This home is done all in white including a very nice upgraded with granite full kitchen. Nice backyard with its own tree and patio that has an outdoor wood-burning chimney I am not sure one uses it? This home is fully in move-in ready and as nice as any.

Built in 1920.
1,200 sq/ft.

- SELLING PRICE $319,000.
Last sold in 1995 for $119,000.

https://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/48.../home/13496161

Its streetview.
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9689...8192?entry=ttu

The alley and garage. https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9693...8192?entry=ttu

[Das_Interwebz]

Correction ^^^ missed a link to one home not posting its For Sale Redfin listing built in 1967 one Mid-Century.

https://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/34.../home/13541966

[sidneyinmyeyes34]

400,000 can't even buy you a parking space where I live.. I live in Malibu California well not in the city limits but in the mountains in above it "unincorporated Malibu". It used to be a lot less pricey when I was kid. I grew up in Malibu and you could buy a home in my neighborhood in the late eighties/ early 1990's for 450,000-550,000 dollars but now in 2024 its gone up exponentially .

[ShenardL]

It's very hard to find decent homes in the northern Atlanta suburbs for under $500,000 now but to the south of the city, there are options:

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/5...49105862_zpid/
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/5...70841974_zpid/
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/9...49012419_zpid/
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1...69338527_zpid/
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2...69419471_zpid/
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1...87835913_zpid/
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/9...68607589_zpid/