10 Fastest-Growing Real Estate Markets

**BadlandsVikings** · 06-09-2008, 06:52 PM

http://promo.realestate.yahoo.com/promo/10-fastest-growing-real-estate-markets.html

**cajunvike** · 06-09-2008, 06:56 PM

Basically, every area that wasn't affected by the bubble a few years ago.
That and you can attribute the Texas and Louisiana jumps to the jump in oil prices.

**ItalianStallion** · 06-09-2008, 10:45 PM

Haha Scranton, PA?
Probably because of The Office.

Calgary housing prices have doubled in the past 5 years and the average house costs around $450, 000.
It blows for young people like me who want to eventually buy a house in the city they grew up in.

**gregair13** · 06-09-2008, 11:13 PM

i doubt i will ever be able to afford a nice house in edmonton or calgary for that matter. yeah for oil!

**BloodyHorns82** · 06-09-2008, 11:16 PM

I've been to McAllen a few times...it's always hard to tell if I'm in the U.S.A. or Mexico.
Since I don't speak spanish, I can't even read half the advertisements and store names.
Hot as hell in the summer too...no thanks.

**Zeus** · 06-10-2008, 07:26 AM

"BloodyHorns82" wrote:

I've been to McAllen a few times...it's always hard to tell if I'm in the U.S.A. or Mexico.
Since I don't speak spanish, I can't even read half the advertisements and store names.
Hot as hell in the summer too...no thanks.

I looked at that and said - "Right, like I want to live somewhere where the average house price is $109,000."
That sounds like SLUM territory to me.

=Z=

**michaelmazid** · 06-10-2008, 10:09 AM

Texas has 4 major cities in the top 8 market and I can tell you in person that Houston has not been affected by the real estate problems at all since I am in the market to buy a new house. I saw a house that I liked and it sold in 3 days. We also saw another one that jumped up from the asking price. Basically the seller was asking $169,000 and got an offer of $173,000 since there was so much interest in the house.