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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 5,088 people, 2,020 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $398,552, Gretna real estate is some of the most expensive in Nebraska, although Gretna home values aren't among America's most expensive.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Gretna, accounting for 67.48% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Gretna include large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 29.43%), duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 1.85%).
The most prevalent building size and type in Gretna are three and four bedroom dwellings, chiefly found in single-family detached homes. The city has a mixture of owners and renters, with 56.83% owning and 43.17% renting.
Gretna homes and real estate are some of the newest in America. 44.56% of Gretna's housing was built since 2000, making the city have a very new look and feel. If you like the amenities of newer homes and subdivisions, then you will probably like what the Gretna real estate market has to offer. Quite a bit of the housing here was also built between 1970-1999 ( 34.62%), and between 1940-1969 ( 16.79%). There's also some housing in Gretna built before 1939 ( 4.04%).
Appreciation rates for homes in Gretna have been tracking above average for the last ten years, according to NeighborhoodScout data. The cumulative appreciation rate over the ten years has been 73.13%, which ranks in the top 50% nationwide. This equates to an annual average Gretna house appreciation rate of 5.64%.
NeighborhoodScout's data show that during the latest twelve months, Gretna's appreciation rate, at 13.98%, has been at or slightly above the national average. In the latest quarter, Gretna's appreciation rate has been 5.81%, which annualizes to a rate of 25.34%.
Importantly, this makes Gretna one of the highest appreciating communities in the nation for the latest quarter, and may signal the city's near-future real estate investment strength.
Relative to Nebraska, our data show that Gretna's latest annual appreciation rate is higher than 80% of the other cities and towns in Nebraska.
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