Over $100,000 Income Required to Buy a Median-Priced American Home

An annual income of $156,814 to $197,057 required to buy a typical home in California, Hawaii, Massachusetts, and Washington.
Over $100,000 Income Required to Buy a Median-Priced American Home
A home stands for sale in a Brooklyn neighborhood with a limited supply of single family homes in New York on March 31, 2021. Spencer Platt/Getty Images
Naveen Athrappully
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U.S. citizens need to make over $100,000 a year to buy a median-priced home, with the income needed to qualify to purchase a home jumping almost 50 percent over the past four years.

“A combination of high mortgage rates, rising home prices, and low housing inventory over the last two years is pushing homeownership further out of reach for would-be homeowners, especially first-timers,” Bankrate said in an April 1 report. According to the company’s analysis, “to afford a median-priced home of $402,343, Americans need an annual income of $110,871.” This is “nearly a 50 percent increase in just the last four years.”

Naveen Athrappully
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Naveen Athrappully is a news reporter covering business and world events at The Epoch Times.