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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 1,615 people, 820 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $190,489, house prices in Moore Haven are solidly below the national average.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Moore Haven, accounting for 57.26% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Moore Haven include mobile homes or trailers ( 26.09%), large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 11.78%), and a few duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 3.96%).
Owner-occupied, three and four bedroom dwellings, primarily in single-family detached homes are the most prevalent type of housing you will see in Moore Haven. Owner-occupied housing accounts for 71.67% of Moore Haven's homes, and 57.97% have either three or four bedrooms, which is average sized relative to America.
There is a lot of housing in Moore Haven 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 Moore Haven built between 2000 and later ( 27.41%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from between 1940-1969 ( 10.56%).
Vacant housing appears to be an issue in Moore Haven. Fully 16.75% of the housing stock is classified as vacant. Left unchecked, vacant Moore Haven homes and apartments can be a drag on the real estate market, holding Moore Haven real estate prices below levels they could achieve if vacant housing was absorbed into the market and became occupied. Housing vacancy rates are a useful measure to consider, along with other things, if you are a home buyer or a real estate investor.
In the last 10 years, Moore Haven has experienced some of the highest home appreciation rates of any community in the nation. Moore Haven real estate appreciated 156.07% over the last ten years, which is an average annual home appreciation rate of 9.86%, putting Moore Haven in the top 10% nationally for real estate appreciation. If you are a home buyer or real estate investor, Moore Haven definitely has a track record of being one of the best long term real estate investments in America through the last ten years.
Over the last year, Moore Haven appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Moore Haven's appreciation rate has been 0.28%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in Moore Haven were at -2.36%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of -9.13%.
Notably, Moore Haven's appreciation rate in the latest quarter is one of the lowest in America.
Relative to Florida, our data show that Moore Haven's latest annual appreciation rate is lower than 80% of the other cities and towns in Florida.
$190,489
for Florida
for nation
820
$1,272 / per month