America`s new hottest housing market is a leafy town with great prices where homes are selling at record speed


America`s new hottest housing market is a leafy town with great prices where homes are selling at record speed


A small lakeside city sandwiched between Chicago and Milwaukee has quietly become the most in-demand housing market in the US.

Kenosha, Wisconsin, rose to the top of Realtor.com`s December hottest housing markets list — a ranking that signals buyer demand has become so intense it has turned the market into the most competitive in the country at the end of last year.

Homes in Kenosha, a suburb of Milwaukee, are now attracting more than three times the national average number of online views and selling weeks faster than the typical US property....


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Ken Notes: Still the median listing price of $384,000 is high but there were a few under 250K. The proximity to Milwaukee, Racine and Chicago, mass transit, Lake Michigan, and new computer data centers coming online soon make the city very attractive.

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