{"id":341222,"date":"2026-07-15T19:10:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T19:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/341222\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T19:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T19:10:13","slug":"cape-coral-ranks-no-11-for-first-time-homebuyers-gb-daily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/341222\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Coral ranks No. 11 for first-time homebuyers | GB Daily"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Cape Coral luxury home 2804 SW 36th Terrace.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6925cfe07914c.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A new WalletHub study ranked Cape Coral No. 11 among the nation\u2019s best cities for first-time homebuyers, citing its strong real estate market and housing inventory.<\/p>\n<p>                                    Sotheby&#8217;s International Realty<\/p>\n<p>Cape Coral ranked 11th among 300 U.S. cities in <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"Hyperlink SCXW160980772 BCX0\" href=\"https:\/\/wallethub.com\/edu\/best-and-worst-cities-for-first-time-home-buyers\/5564\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WalletHub\u2019s 2026 list of the best places for first-time homebuyers.<\/a> The city placed seventh among midsize cities and ranked sixth nationally for real estate market conditions, though it was 139th for affordability and 55th for quality of life. WalletHub evaluated cities using 22 measures covering housing costs, market activity and livability, including home prices, property taxes, listings, building permits, crime, schools and employment. Palm Bay topped the overall ranking, followed by Surprise and Gilbert, Arizona. Other Florida cities in the top 25 included Tampa, Orlando, Boca Raton and Lakeland. The study used data collected through June 16.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new WalletHub study ranked Cape Coral No. 11 among the nation\u2019s best cities for first-time homebuyers, citing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,3335],"class_list":["post-341222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-gb-daily"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}