Analytics built by: Location, Inc.
Raw data sources: American Community Survey (U.S. Census Bureau), U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Federal Housing Finance Agency.
Methodology: NeighborhoodScout uses over 600 characteristics to build a neighborhood profile… Read more about Scout's Real Estate Data
With 287,145 people, 107,134 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $413,113, Anchorage real estate prices are well above average cost compared to national prices.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Anchorage, accounting for 48.04% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Anchorage include large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 17.99%), duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 16.68%), and a few row houses and other attached homes ( 13.24%).
The most prevalent building size and type in Anchorage are three and four bedroom dwellings, chiefly found in single-family detached homes. The city has a mixture of owners and renters, with 62.17% owning and 37.83% renting.
There is a lot of housing in Anchorage built from 1970 to 1999 so parts of town may have that "Brady Bunch" look of homes popular in the '70s and early '80s, although some of these houses were built up through the early '90s as well. There is also a lot of housing in Anchorage built between 2000 and later ( 17.72%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from between 1940-1969 ( 16.95%).
Some of the lowest real estate appreciation rates in America over the last ten years have been in Anchorage, where house values have increased just 37.95%, which is annualized rate of 3.27%. This rate is lower than the appreciation rate found in 90% of the cities and towns in America.
Over the last year, Anchorage appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Anchorage's appreciation rate has been 2.15%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in Anchorage were at 2.54%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of 10.55%.
Relative to Alaska, our data show that Anchorage's latest annual appreciation rate is lower than 50% of the other cities and towns in Alaska.
One very important thing to keep in mind is that these are average appreciation rates for the city. Individual neighborhoods within Anchorage differ in their investment potential, sometimes by a great deal. Fortunately, you can use NeighborhoodScout to pinpoint the exact neighborhoods in Anchorage - or in any city or town - that have the best track record of real estate appreciation, by the latest quarter, the last year, 2 years, 5 years, 10 years, or even since 2000, to assist you in making the best Anchorage real estate investment or home purchase decisions.
$413,113
for Alaska
for nation
107,134
$2,096 / per month