There are now 550 US cities where the typical home value is $1 million or more
A tight housing market is driving luxury home prices up. (iStock)
A tight housing market is driving luxury home prices up. (iStock)
Home prices are reaching a peak. Currently, 550 cities in the U.S. have home values that average $1 million or more, a Zillow report found.
Last year, 491 cities boasted average home values over $1 million. The rise in cities with high-priced homes is due to the tight housing market driving prices up.
California has the largest number of metro areas with million-dollar homes. With 210 million-dollar cities, California has more than the next five states combined. Next in line is New York, quickly followed by New Jersey, which added the most high-priced cities of any state, at 14. The only states that lost million-dollar cities were Florida, Texas and Delaware.
The cities in the table below are home to the largest number of high-priced homes in the country, with many based in California: