{"id":36908,"date":"2025-11-17T21:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T21:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/36908\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T21:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T21:13:07","slug":"most-desirable-cities-in-pennsylvania-where-homes-still-cost-less-than-300k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/36908\/","title":{"rendered":"Most desirable cities in Pennsylvania where homes still cost less than $300K"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/7EEA81F882EFF4946A06880404D5042B.jpg\" alt=\"Trump considers declaring 'housing emergency'\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\"\/>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/video\/1701512\" data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump considers declaring &#8216;housing emergency&#8217;<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\">Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Monday said that the Trump administration is mulling the declaration of a national housing emergency in an effort to address high housing prices and limited inventory.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">PENNSYLVANIA &#8211; The cost of owning a home continues to be too high for many Americans, following years of skyrocketing prices.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Both mortgage rates and home prices have seen dramatic increases post-pandemic.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">By the numbers:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The national median sales price climbed 2.1% in September from a year earlier to $415,200,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/housing-home-sales-real-estate-home-prices-c8830628bfcf6cc690f37fabca209dd1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to The Associated Press<\/a>. That\u2019s the 27th consecutive month that home prices have risen on an annual basis and the highest median sales price for any September on data going back to 1999.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">As home affordability continues to decrease for many in America, Realtor.com put together a list of 10 metros with homes under $300,000 \u2013 well below the national average.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Here are the areas in\u00a0Pennsylvania that <a href=\"http:\/\/realtor.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Realtor.com<\/a> says offer a satisfying quality of life and the conveniences of a bustling city without breaking the bank:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Desirable metros with homes under $300k in PA\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p class=\"quote-text\">&#8220;The existence of these affordable areas, even if limited, offers encouraging news for buyers committed to purchasing in one of these regions.&#8221; \u2013 Hannah Jones, senior economic research analyst\u00a0at Realtor.com<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">&#8220;In these markets, home prices are more closely aligned with local incomes, allowing the typical household to afford the typical for-sale home,&#8221; Hannah Jones, senior economic research analyst\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realtor.com\/news\/trends\/best-metros-homes-for-sale-under-300000\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">at Realtor.com<\/a> said. &#8220;The existence of these affordable areas, even if limited, offers encouraging news for buyers committed to purchasing in one of these regions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Median list price:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">$250,000<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">2019 median list price:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">$190,000<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Median household income :<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">$72,935<\/p>\n<p> Scranton, Pennsylvania <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Median list price:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">$262,350<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">2019 median list price:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">$158,000<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Median household income :<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">$63,615<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this article was cited from a Realtor.com analysis published in November 2025. Background information about the housing market was taken from The Associated Press. This story was reported from Detroit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/consumer\/real-estate\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Real Estate<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/us\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">U.S.<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/money\/us-economy\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Economy<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/consumer\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Consumer<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trump considers declaring &#8216;housing emergency&#8217; Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Monday said that the Trump administration is mulling&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5668,83,139,28,30,29,1081,593,8153],"class_list":["post-36908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-consumer","tag-money","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-real-estate","tag-us","tag-us-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36908","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=36908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}