Three Pennsylvania real estate markets are among the nation\u2019s top 10 in the Fall 2026 Housing Market Ranking issued jointly by The Wall Street Journal and Realtor.com.\n<\/p>\n
Lancaster is listed at No. 5, followed by Reading at No. 7, and Harrisburg-Carlisle at No. 10.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Fall 2026 ranking evaluates the 200 most populous U.S. metropolitan areas using a combination of housing market conditions and broader measures of economic health and livability,\u201d The Wall Street Journal and Realtor.com said in a jointly issued statement. \u201cTogether, these factors highlight markets where buyers are more likely to find balance in an otherwise challenging housing environment.\u201d<\/p>\n
Appleton, WI, leads the rankings, followed by South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI; Canton-Massilon, OH; Manchester-Nashua, NH; Lancaster; Waterbury-Shelton, CT; Reading; Fort Wayne, IN; Rockford, IL; and Harrisburg-Carlisle.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cThis ranking reflects what makes the Harrisburg-Carlisle area such a strong place to live and invest in a home,\u201d said Tracee Carter, president of the Greater Harrisburg Association of REALTORS which serves the Harrisburg-Carlisle area. \u201cBuyers today are looking for value, stability, and quality of life, and our region offers all three. That continues to bring steady interest to our market, which benefits buyers, sellers and our communities across Cumberland, Dauphin, and Perry counties.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
According to the joint report, the ranking evaluates the 200 most populous core-based statistical areas, as measured by the U.S. Census Bureau, and defined by July 2023 OMB delineation standards for twelve indicators across two categories: real estate market (60%) and economic health and quality of life (40%). Each market is ranked on a scale of 0 to 100 according to the category indicators, and the overall result is based on the weighted sum of these rankings.<\/p>\n
The real estate market category indicators are real estate demand (15%), based on average page views per property; real estate supply (15%), based on median days on market for real estate listings; median listing price trend (10%), based on annual price growth over the quarter; property taxes (10%); and climate risk to properties (10%). Per the report, the economic and quality of life category indicators are unemployment (5%); wages (5%); regional price parities (5%); the share of foreign born (5%); small businesses (5%); amenities (10%), measured as the average number of stores per specific \u201ceveryday splurge\u201d category (coffee, upscale\/specialty grocery, home improvement, fitness) per capita in an area; and commute time (5%).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three Pennsylvania real estate markets are among the nation\u2019s top 10 in the Fall 2026 Housing Market Ranking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[129405,129406,2002,28,736,128,130,129,1081,109009,80625],"class_list":["post-317661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-fall-2026-housing-market-ranking","tag-harrisburg-carlisle","tag-lancaster","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-real-estate","tag-realtor-com","tag-the-wall-street-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317661","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=317661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}