Affordability Analysis in Current Property Market - Jan. 31, 2023

Our affordability analysis in the current property market evaluates the financial feasibility of purchasing a property, taking into account factors such as property prices, mortgage rates, and income levels. This analysis aims to help you assess your ability to enter the real estate market.

As of January 2021, Memphis ranked first on the affordability index, indicating a relatively higher affordability level in the property market. Detroit secured the second position, followed by Syracuse in third place. Buenos Aires, Damascus, and Tehran showcased significantly lower scores on the index, suggesting challenges in terms of affordability in those areas.

In January 2022, Memphis maintained its first position on the affordability index, emphasizing its continued affordability in the property market. Detroit ranked second, while Cleveland secured the third spot. Buenos Aires, Damascus, and Tehran remained at the lower end of the index, indicating limited affordability in those areas.

By January 2023, Houston claimed the first position on the affordability index, indicating increased affordability in the property market compared to other areas. Phoenix ranked second, followed by Dallas in third place. Buenos Aires, Caracas, and Colombo showcased significantly lower scores on the index, suggesting challenges in affordability in those locations.

Understanding the affordability analysis in the current property market provides valuable insights into the feasibility of purchasing a property. It helps you gauge the affordability of different areas, taking into account property prices, mortgage rates, and income levels. This information is crucial when considering a property investment or planning to enter the real estate market, allowing you to make informed decisions based on your financial situation.

Jan 31, 2023 Index
1st
  Houston
5.4
2nd
  Phoenix
5.2
3rd
  Dallas
4.9
4th
  Pretoria
4.8
5th
  Ad Dammam
4.6
6th
  Jacksonville
4.4
7th
  Orlando
4.2
7th
  Riyadh
4.2
8th
  Edmonton
4
9th
  Atlanta
3.9
9th
  Dubai
3.9
9th
  Jeddah (Jiddah)
3.9
10th
  Johannesburg
3.8
11th
  Denver
3.6
11th
  Charlotte
3.6
11th
  Las Vegas
3.6
12th
  Chicago
3.5
12th
  Salt Lake City
3.5
13th
  Tampa
3.4
14th
  Albuquerque
3.2
14th
  Nashville
3.2
15th
  Christchurch
3.1
15th
  Fort Lauderdale
3.1
15th
  Muscat
3.1
16th
  Aalborg
3
16th
  Calgary
3
17th
  Eindhoven
2.9
17th
  Rotterdam
2.9
17th
  San Antonio
2.9
18th
  Coventry
2.8
18th
  Antwerp
2.8
18th
  Durban
2.8
18th
  Turku
2.8
19th
  Aberdeen
2.7
19th
  Abu Dhabi
2.7
19th
  Grenoble
2.7
19th
  Malmo
2.7
19th
  Portland
2.7
19th
  The Hague (Den Haag)
2.7
20th
  Cork
2.6
20th
  Toulouse
2.6
21st
  Brussels
2.5
22nd
  Basel
2.4
22nd
  Gent
2.4
22nd
  Groningen
2.4
22nd
  Tampere
2.4
23rd
  Canberra
2.3
23rd
  Larnaca
2.3
23rd
  Nicosia
2.3
23rd
  Seattle
2.3
24th
  Kuala Lumpur
2.2
24th
  Maribor
2.2
24th
  Ramallah
2.2
24th
  Arhus
2.2
25th
  Miami
2.1
25th
  Doha
2.1
25th
  Manchester
2.1
25th
  Belfast
2.1
25th
  Turin
2.1
25th
  Trondheim
2.1
26th
  Austin
2
26th
  Valencia
2
26th
  Reno
2
26th
  Glasgow
2
26th
  Bergen
2
26th
  Adelaide
2
27th
  Malaga
1.9
27th
  Copenhagen
1.9
27th
  Espoo
1.9
27th
  HsinChu
1.9
27th
  Linz
1.9
27th
  Edinburgh
1.9
27th
  Utrecht
1.9
27th
  Stavanger
1.9
27th
  Liverpool
1.9
27th
  Raleigh
1.9
27th
  Nuremberg
1.9
27th
  Noida
1.9
28th
  Heidelberg
1.8
28th
  Columbus
1.8
28th
  Tromso
1.8
28th
  Tartu
1.8
28th
  Seville (Sevilla)
1.8
28th
  Riga
1.8
28th
  Plovdiv
1.8
28th
  Lyon
1.8
28th
  Limassol
1.8
29th
  Graz
1.7
29th
  Gothenburg
1.7
29th
  Perth
1.7
29th
  Ostrava
1.7
29th
  Nanaimo
1.7
29th
  Melbourne
1.7
29th
  Los Angeles
1.7
29th
  Johor Bahru
1.7
29th
  Helsinki
1.7
29th
  Haifa
1.7
30th
  Bolzano-Bozen
1.6
30th
  Boston
1.6
30th
  Bologna
1.6
30th
  Bangalore
1.6
30th
  Varna
1.6
30th
  San Jose
1.6
30th
  San Diego
1.6
30th
  Reykjavik
1.6
30th
  Penang
1.6
30th
  Nice
1.6
30th
  Kaunas
1.6
31st
  Geneva
1.5
31st
  Amsterdam
1.5
31st
  Barcelona
1.5
31st
  Coimbra
1.5
31st
  Dublin
1.5
31st
  Osijek
1.5
31st
  San Juan
1.5
31st
  Zurich
1.5
32nd
  Dusseldorf
1.4
32nd
  Haarlem
1.4
32nd
  Cape Town
1.4
32nd
  Bhubaneswar
1.4
32nd
  Berlin
1.4
32nd
  Hamburg
1.4
32nd
  Madrid
1.4
32nd
  Montreal
1.4
32nd
  Oslo
1.4
32nd
  San Francisco
1.4
32nd
  Sofia
1.4
32nd
  Stuttgart
1.4
32nd
  Tokyo
1.4
32nd
  Vienna
1.4
33rd
  Kaohsiung
1.3
33rd
  Tallinn
1.3
33rd
  Quebec City
1.3
33rd
  Petaling Jaya
1.3
33rd
  Mississauga
1.3
33rd
  Luxembourg
1.3
33rd
  Lucknow (Lakhnau)
1.3
33rd
  Kolkata
1.3
33rd
  Honolulu
1.3
33rd
  Gurgaon
1.3
33rd
  Brisbane
1.3
34th
  Hyderabad
1.2
34th
  Thessaloniki
1.2
34th
  Vilnius
1.2
34th
  Yangon
1.2
34th
  Indore
1.2
34th
  Katowice
1.2
34th
  Faisalabad
1.2
34th
  Auckland
1.2
34th
  Amman
1.2
34th
  New York
1.2
34th
  Olomouc
1.2
34th
  Porto
1.2
34th
  Pune
1.2
34th
  Rijeka
1.2
34th
  Sarajevo
1.2
34th
  Sydney
1.2
35th
  Surat
1.1
35th
  Kosice
1.1
35th
  Tuzla
1.1
35th
  Timisoara
1.1
35th
  Szczecin
1.1
35th
  Kochi
1.1
35th
  Stockholm
1.1
35th
  Plzen
1.1
35th
  Panama City
1.1
35th
  Monterrey
1.1
35th
  Lodz
1.1
35th
  Ljubljana
1.1
35th
  Ahmedabad
1.1
35th
  Brasov
1.1
35th
  Coimbatore
1.1
35th
  Craiova
1.1
35th
  Florence
1.1
35th
  Frankfurt
1.1
35th
  Iasi
1.1
36th
  Santa Cruz
1
36th
  Sibiu
1
36th
  Singapore
1
36th
  Split
1
36th
  Vancouver
1
36th
  Victoria
1
36th
  Wellington
1
36th
  Zagreb
1
36th
  Athens
1
36th
  Bratislava
1
36th
  Rome
1
36th
  Guadalajara
1
36th
  Innsbruck
1
36th
  Munich
1
36th
  Poznan
1
36th
  Podgorica
1
36th
  Nis
1
36th
  Saint Helier
1
36th
  San Jose
1
36th
  Bucharest
1
37th
  Guayaquil
0.9
37th
  Astana (Nur-Sultan)
0.9
37th
  Banja Luka
0.9
37th
  Chennai
0.9
37th
  Chittagong
0.9
37th
  Constanta
0.9
37th
  Kuwait City
0.9
37th
  La Paz
0.9
37th
  London
0.9
37th
  Marrakech
0.9
37th
  Milan
0.9
37th
  Oradea
0.9
37th
  Pristina
0.9
37th
  Ramat Gan
0.9
37th
  Skopje
0.9
37th
  Taichung
0.9
37th
  Toronto
0.9
38th
  Casablanca
0.8
38th
  Brno
0.8
38th
  Bialystok
0.8
38th
  Wroclaw
0.8
38th
  Zadar
0.8
38th
  Yekaterinburg
0.8
38th
  Debrecen
0.8
38th
  Gdansk
0.8
38th
  Jerusalem
0.8
38th
  Krakow (Cracow)
0.8
38th
  Lisbon
0.8
38th
  Merida
0.8
38th
  Novi Sad
0.8
38th
  Paris
0.8
39th
  Islamabad
0.7
39th
  Warsaw
0.7
39th
  Baku
0.7
39th
  Barranquilla
0.7
39th
  Batumi
0.7
39th
  Belgrade
0.7
39th
  Brasilia
0.7
39th
  Budapest
0.7
39th
  Chengdu
0.7
39th
  Chisinau
0.7
39th
  Cluj-Napoca
0.7
39th
  Cuenca
0.7
39th
  Delhi
0.7
39th
  Dubrovnik
0.7
39th
  Gdynia
0.7
39th
  Guatemala City
0.7
39th
  Macao
0.7
39th
  Montevideo
0.7
39th
  Porto Alegre
0.7
39th
  Quezon City
0.7
39th
  Quito
0.7
39th
  Rabat
0.7
39th
  Tel Aviv-Yafo
0.7
39th
  Tirana
0.7
39th
  Voronezh
0.7
40th
  Curitiba
0.6
40th
  Cairo
0.6
40th
  Bandung
0.6
40th
  Baghdad
0.6
40th
  Asuncion
0.6
40th
  Ulaanbaatar
0.6
40th
  Ufa
0.6
40th
  Taipei
0.6
40th
  Santiago
0.6
40th
  Prague
0.6
40th
  Perm
0.6
40th
  Nizhny Novgorod
0.6
40th
  Nairobi
0.6
40th
  Lviv
0.6
40th
  Lahore
0.6
40th
  Kharkiv
0.6
40th
  Dhaka
0.6
41st
  Tunis
0.5
41st
  Vladivostok
0.5
41st
  Hanoi
0.5
41st
  Dnipro
0.5
41st
  Kazan
0.5
41st
  Kaliningrad
0.5
41st
  Ankara
0.5
41st
  Almaty
0.5
41st
  Alexandria
0.5
41st
  Krasnodar
0.5
41st
  Lagos
0.5
41st
  Lima
0.5
41st
  Medellin
0.5
41st
  Mexico City
0.5
41st
  Novosibirsk
0.5
41st
  Samara
0.5
41st
  Seoul
0.5
41st
  Tbilisi
0.5
41st
  Yerevan
0.5
42nd
  Moscow
0.4
42nd
  Belo Horizonte
0.4
42nd
  Bishkek
0.4
42nd
  Bogota
0.4
42nd
  Bursa
0.4
42nd
  Hangzhou
0.4
42nd
  Izmir
0.4
42nd
  Jakarta
0.4
42nd
  Karachi
0.4
42nd
  Kiev (Kyiv)
0.4
42nd
  Odessa (Odesa)
0.4
42nd
  Rio de Janeiro
0.4
42nd
  Saint Petersburg
0.4
42nd
  Santo Domingo
0.4
42nd
  Sao Paulo
0.4
42nd
  Surabaya
0.4
42nd
  Tripoli
0.4
42nd
  Antalya
0.4
42nd
  Bangkok
0.4
42nd
  Algiers
0.4
43rd
  Beijing
0.3
43rd
  Shenzhen
0.3
43rd
  Shanghai
0.3
43rd
  Phnom Penh
0.3
43rd
  Mumbai
0.3
43rd
  Minsk
0.3
43rd
  Mersin
0.3
43rd
  Manila
0.3
43rd
  Hong Kong
0.3
43rd
  Ho Chi Minh City
0.3
43rd
  Guangzhou
0.3
43rd
  Eskisehir
0.3
43rd
  Tashkent
0.3
44th
  Tehran
0.2
44th
  Isfahan (Esfahan)
0.2
44th
  Beirut
0.2
44th
  Addis Ababa
0.2
44th
  Shiraz
0.2
44th
  Mashhad
0.2
44th
  Kathmandu
0.2
44th
  Istanbul
0.2
45th
  Caracas
0.1
45th
  Buenos Aires
0.1
45th
  Colombo
0.1