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Raw data sources: American Community Survey (U.S. Census Bureau), U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Federal Housing Finance Agency.
Methodology: NeighborhoodScout uses over 600 characteristics to build a neighborhood profile… Read more about Scout's Real Estate Data
With a population of 7,331, 3,341 total housing units (homes and apartments), and a median house value of $971,542, Summerland Key house prices are not only among the most expensive in Florida, Summerland Key real estate also is some of the most expensive in all of America.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Summerland Key, accounting for 83.13% of the town's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Summerland Key include mobile homes or trailers ( 8.96%), duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 3.95%), and a few row houses and other attached homes ( 1.68%).
Dwellings in Summerland Key tend to be quite small (one, two, or no bedrooms) and owner occupied. In fact, 52.60% of the homes in Summerland Key have two or fewer bedrooms.
There is a lot of housing in Summerland Key built from 1970 to 1999 so parts of town may have that "Brady Bunch" look of homes popular in the '70s and early '80s, although some of these houses were built up through the early '90s as well. There is also a lot of housing in Summerland Key built between 2000 and later ( 23.82%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from between 1940-1969 ( 10.31%).
Vacant housing appears to be an issue in Summerland Key. Fully 33.39% of the housing stock is classified as vacant. Left unchecked, vacant Summerland Key homes and apartments can be a drag on the real estate market, holding Summerland Key real estate prices below levels they could achieve if vacant housing was absorbed into the market and became occupied. Housing vacancy rates are a useful measure to consider, along with other things, if you are a home buyer or a real estate investor.
In the last 10 years, Summerland Key has experienced some of the highest home appreciation rates of any community in the nation. Summerland Key real estate appreciated 134.43% over the last ten years, which is an average annual home appreciation rate of 8.89%, putting Summerland Key in the top 10% nationally for real estate appreciation. If you are a home buyer or real estate investor, Summerland Key definitely has a track record of being one of the best long term real estate investments in America through the last ten years.
Over the last year, Summerland Key appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Summerland Key's appreciation rate has been 0.54%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in Summerland Key were at -2.36%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of -9.13%.
Notably, Summerland Key's appreciation rate in the latest quarter is one of the lowest in America.
Relative to Florida, our data show that Summerland Key's latest annual appreciation rate is lower than 80% of the other cities and towns in Florida.
$971,542
for Florida
for nation
3,341
$3,794 / per month