{"id":282826,"date":"2026-09-10T08:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T08:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/282826\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T08:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T08:32:12","slug":"new-investors-are-embracing-house-hacking-heres-how-pittsburgh-compares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/282826\/","title":{"rendered":"New investors are embracing house hacking. Here\u2019s how Pittsburgh compares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">After years of tight inventory and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/bizjournals\/news\/2026\/08\/26\/new-homes-shrink-prices-increase-lendingtree.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">soaring home prices,<\/a> many first-time buyers and new investors are turning to \u201chouse hacking.\u201d The approach involves buying a small multifamily property, such as a duplex, triplex or fourplex, and living in one unit while renting out the others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">But some metros offer considerably higher potential returns than others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Pittsburgh ranked 12th in a recent house hacking analysis among major metros based on factors such as affordability, income potential, rental demand and market growth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/09\/04\/is-house-hacking-taking-pittsburgh-by-storm.html?ana=wpxi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/09\/04\/is-house-hacking-taking-pittsburgh-by-storm.html?ana=wpxi\">Click here to read more from our partners at the Pittsburgh Business Times.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After years of tight inventory and soaring home prices, many first-time buyers and new investors are turning to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[118015,1084,118014,4736,8975,5681,73,75,32160,32161,74],"class_list":["post-282826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-home-buyer","tag-house","tag-house-hacking","tag-housing","tag-housing-market","tag-market","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-housing","tag-pittsburgh-housing-market","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}