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Thursday, February 19, 2026

Home Ownership Rates Vary Wildly: What’s Going On?

Courtesy of Mish.

Reader Duncan Burns, a writer for the “Valley Patriot”, a local newspaper in North Andover, Massachusetts pinged me with an interesting chart on the home ownership rate in Massachusetts.

A quick look at the chart led to hours of investigation. There were huge variations in home ownership rates, state by state.

Region in the county was not a factor, nor was the size of the state. Home ownership peaked in 1998 in one state and 1999 in several more.

The Massachusetts home ownership rate did not peak until 2012!

What’s up with that?

Massachusetts Home Ownership

Home Ownership MA

A variation of that chart kicked off numerous questions:


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