{"id":613945,"date":"2026-06-06T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=613945"},"modified":"2026-06-06T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T03:00:00","slug":"where-its-hardest-to-afford-a-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=613945","title":{"rendered":"Where It’s Hardest To Afford A Home"},"content":{"rendered":"

Where It’s Hardest To Afford A Home<\/span><\/p>\n

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Big cities like Hong Kong or Los Angeles are well-known for their expensive real estate markets. But there are also plenty of housing markets you wouldn\u2019t necessarily expect among the least affordable<\/strong> \u2013 including several in\u00a0Australia<\/a>, New Zealand and\u00a0Canada<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As Statista’s Tristan Gaudiaut details below,<\/a> according to a 2026 ranking by\u00a0Forbes<\/a>, Hong Kong remains the world\u2019s least affordable housing market, with median home prices still more than 16 times higher than median pre-tax household incomes<\/strong>, based on the dominant housing type in each market.<\/p>\n

\"Infographic:<\/a><\/p>\n

You will find more infographics at Statista<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

It is followed by Sydney (13.8) and Vancouver (11.8), while several U.S. cities, including San Jose (11.4), Los Angeles (10.9) and Honolulu (10.5), also rank among the least affordable.<\/p>\n

The first\u00a0European market<\/a>\u00a0in the ranking is London, with a price-to-income ratio of 8.1. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Overall, the list highlights the continued dominance of major cities in Australia, Canada and the\u00a0United States<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While affordability ratios have eased slightly in some markets in recent years, the broader trend remains unchanged.<\/p>\n

Across most major urban areas, ratios still hover well above historic norms, often in the 8-to-14 range, meaning housing costs continue to outpace incomes by a wide margin and keep\u00a0homeownership<\/a>\u00a0out of reach for large parts of the population.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nFri, 06\/05\/2026 – 23:00<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Where It’s Hardest To Afford A Home Big cities like Hong Kong or Los Angeles are well-known for their expensive real estate markets. But there are also plenty of housing markets you wouldn\u2019t necessarily expect among the least affordable \u2013 including several in\u00a0Australia, New Zealand and\u00a0Canada. As Statista’s Tristan Gaudiaut details below, according to a… Continue reading Where It’s Hardest To Afford A Home<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":613946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-613945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-border-security","category-immigration","category-immigration-reform","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=613945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/613946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=613945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=613945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=613945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}