One State Dominates Best Real-Estate Markets

A bit of good news for Texas, which has been making headlines over the past week for the devastation wrought by Hurricane Harvey. 

The Lone Star State dominates WalletHub's top 10 slots in its ranking for the best real-estate markets in the US, with Frisco taking the No. 1 spot. The site looked at 21 gauges of "housing-market attractiveness and economic strength" across 300 large, medium, and small cities, analyzing everything from a city's home value forecasts and foreclosure rates to housing affordability and the unemployment rate.

The findings:

Best

1. Frisco, Texas
2. McKinney, Texas
3. Allen, Texas
4. Cary, NC
5. Richardson, Texas

Worst

1. Newark, NJ
2. Paterson, NJ
3. Elizabeth, NJ
4. Miami Beach, Fla.
5. Bridgeport, Conn.

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