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Average Home Values for SEC Towns
Posted on 5/18/26 at 9:22 am
Posted on 5/18/26 at 9:22 am
According to Zillow, here is what the average home is valued at in each of the SEC college towns / cities:
$508,500- Austin, TX
$434,400- Nashville, TN
$412,900- Auburn, AL
$412,800- Oxford, MS
$377,900- Fayetteville, AR
$369,200- Knoxville, TN
$349,000- College Station, TX
$347,000- Athens, GA
$329,000- Lexington, KY
$321,000- Columbia, SC
$297,000- Gainesville, FL
$279,600- Starkville, MS
$279,600- Norman, OK
$229,000- Columbia, MO
$228,900- Tuscaloosa, AL
$228,400- Baton Rouge, LA
Surprised Athens isn’t higher on the list. You’d think a college town an hour from Atlanta would be a hot real estate market.
The prices in Auburn and Oxford have gotten insane considering their small size.
$508,500- Austin, TX
$434,400- Nashville, TN
$412,900- Auburn, AL
$412,800- Oxford, MS
$377,900- Fayetteville, AR
$369,200- Knoxville, TN
$349,000- College Station, TX
$347,000- Athens, GA
$329,000- Lexington, KY
$321,000- Columbia, SC
$297,000- Gainesville, FL
$279,600- Starkville, MS
$279,600- Norman, OK
$229,000- Columbia, MO
$228,900- Tuscaloosa, AL
$228,400- Baton Rouge, LA
Surprised Athens isn’t higher on the list. You’d think a college town an hour from Atlanta would be a hot real estate market.
The prices in Auburn and Oxford have gotten insane considering their small size.
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Posted on 5/18/26 at 9:25 am to AUTiger789
If this is some kind of flex, I'm not following it.
Seems more of an indicator of how absurd the price of houses has gotten.
Seems more of an indicator of how absurd the price of houses has gotten.
Posted on 5/18/26 at 9:37 am to AUTiger789
Knoxville and the surrounding area used to be a lot more affordable until the Californians got here.
Posted on 5/18/26 at 9:37 am to AUTiger789
For the quality of the community compared to the price of the house...
I'd say Columbia, MO is your best option here. Columbia is pretty nice.
I'd say Columbia, MO is your best option here. Columbia is pretty nice.
Posted on 5/18/26 at 9:48 am to AUTiger789
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Surprised Athens isn’t higher on the list. You’d think a college town an hour from Atlanta would be a hot real estate market
i have no idea how this was compiled but athens itself is not the hotbed for a metric like this. oconee county and the surrounding areas would likely escalate this number quite a bit.
but im sure that's the case for a lot of these areas.
Posted on 5/18/26 at 9:49 am to AUTiger789
Fayetteville would be my choice.
Posted on 5/18/26 at 9:50 am to rich4pres
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Knoxville and the surrounding area used to be a lot more affordable until the Californians got here.
Transplants have ruined TN
Posted on 5/18/26 at 9:59 am to AUTiger789
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Surprised Athens isn’t higher on the list. You’d think a college town an hour from Atlanta would be a hot real estate market.
It take a lot longer than an hour to drive from Atlanta to Athens.
Posted on 5/18/26 at 10:06 am to AUTiger789
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Surprised Athens isn’t higher on the list. You’d think a college town an hour from Atlanta would be a hot real estate market
Watkinsville is right next to Athens. That’s where you really want to live:
Watkinsville, Georgia features a somewhat competitive housing market with median home prices typically ranging between \(\$530,000\) and \(\$660,000\)
But that’s not Athens so, yeah irrelevant.
Posted on 5/18/26 at 10:08 am to VFL67
Same for Texas especially austin. Even the longhorn haters who remember austin in the late 90s know it was so much better and an actual cool city. Cali transplants ruined so much of what made it great
Posted on 5/18/26 at 10:12 am to rich4pres
quote:I think that can be said in a lot of places. Californians brought their equity to Austin and ruined the market for regular people. Their politics just accelerated an already bad situation.
Knoxville and the surrounding area used to be a lot more affordable until the Californians got here.
Posted on 5/18/26 at 10:14 am to AUTiger789
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Surprised Athens isn’t higher on the list. You’d think a college town an hour from Atlanta would be a hot real estate market.
Athens is an odd real estate bubble entirely dependent upon location within the bubble. Inside Athens proper is $600k-$1.5 mill, especially anything in Five Points or walkable to campus. I've seen 1 bed 1 bath houses selling for $1 mill but the buyers they're targeting are investment companies and rich parents of kids who want to rent the property out over 10-20 years.
Further yet get outside of the campus area, it shifts wildly both in price and quality; 316 west and 441 south into oconee is still $500k+. 441 north and Jefferson Hwy to the northwest as you go toward Jackson County ranges from $300k and then jumps back up toward the $900k mark the closer you get to Jefferon or Braselton/Hoschton. Moving toward the East to Winterville or northeast to Athens Tech and Southeast into Oglethorpe it can get more affordable but those are still pretty agrarian parts of the state so you're trading price for proximity.
All to say, you're not going to find anything in the $300k range anywhere close to campus.
Posted on 5/18/26 at 10:33 am to AUTiger789
Oxford is extremely over valued. With Lane leaving their real estate market will collapse.
Posted on 5/18/26 at 10:40 am to AUTiger789
I don’t know where the actual frick you are getting a home in Tuscaloosa for $228k.
Posted on 5/18/26 at 10:48 am to rich4pres
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Knoxville and the surrounding area used to be a lot more affordable until the Californians got here.
getting that way basically everywhere in states where there is no state income tax. I saw Johnson CIty was booming which is wild to me knowing what it was like 20 years ago. My home value in Franklin has more than doubled since we bought in 2017 when we had no children. It's nice to have the equity but it's not cool knowing we're basically stuck where we are with how much upsizing costs especially with current interest rates. We have instead opted with renovating what we have and making the best of it. Not interested in spending 900k-million on what we really need.
Posted on 5/18/26 at 10:54 am to AUTiger789
The price of homes in AUSTIN has very little to do with UT.
Also, how is this lots compiled?
Homes in the city limits of each city???
Within a specific radius of campus?
Seems you have Data here, but don’t know exactly what it means.
It certainly has almost no correlation to the university itself.
Also, how is this lots compiled?
Homes in the city limits of each city???
Within a specific radius of campus?
Seems you have Data here, but don’t know exactly what it means.
It certainly has almost no correlation to the university itself.
Posted on 5/18/26 at 10:55 am to AUTiger789
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$377,900- Fayetteville, AR
Not that long ago Fayetteville would have been towards the bottom of the list. The growth of NW Arkansas is almost Borg like "You will be assimilated."
Posted on 5/18/26 at 10:58 am to AUTiger789
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$412,900- Auburn, AL
Insane in the membrane. But I’m not surprised. Zero crime, good schools, university activity, (relatively) close to ATL airport.
Posted on 5/18/26 at 11:02 am to TailbackU
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Zero crime
Well that's not true. Auburn has actually had some heinous crimes recently that is surprising for a town so small
AU professor murdered
Ariah's Law
Posted on 5/18/26 at 11:06 am to cdur86
The cost of living in Oklahoma in general is fantastic. Gas prices are the cheapest in the Countty.
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