What this product measures
Combines mortgage access, ownership, occupancy, housing burden, rent-to-income conditions, migration and employment signals.
Primary audience: homebuyers, lenders, housing organizations, real-estate professionals and developers.
How to use it: Use it to identify markets that deserve deeper housing, affordability and development research.
Governed methodology
Family-level ranking, not duplicated Area Codes.
Combines mortgage access, homeownership, occupancy, inverse burden, inverse rent-to-income, migration opportunity and employment magnet conditions.
Market opportunity context; not a promise of affordability or individual mortgage approval.
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