Real Estate
Devon, Chesterbrook Among Best Places To Buy Homes In PA: Niche.com
The two Tredyffrin-Easttown area neighborhoods are ranked very high in Niche's list that measures at home values, property taxes, and more.
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TREDYFFRIN-EASTTOWN, PA – Niche.com, known for its lists ranking towns, schools, colleges, and more, has released a new list of the best places to buy a house in Pennsylvania. The 2017 list features towns all over the Keystone State, but some suburban Philadelphia areas found their ways to the list.
Devon and Chesterbrook made the list, which is based on home values, property taxes, home ownership rates, housing costs, and real estate trends. The ranking is derived from data from the U.S. Census, FBI, and other data sources.
Devon came in at the fourth best place to buy a home in PA, while Chesterbrook was a close fifth.
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Niche reports the median home in Devon is $549,100 with median rent at $1,242, though just 7 percent of Devon residents rent. Median household income is listed at $176,042, dwarfing the $53,889 national median household income.
Over in Chesterbook, the median home is $302,200 with median rent at $1,845, though just 7 percent of Devon residents rent. Median household income is listed at $108,072.
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Both Devon and Chesterbrook are in the Tredyffrin/Easttown School District, which is widely considered one of the best, safest, and most challenging public school districts in the country.
You can see Devon's full Niche report card here and Chesterbrook's full report card here.
Check out what some Niche reviewers have to say about Devon:
I have lived here for 4+ years and it is a nice place to live. A great place to have your children grow up at.
Quiet, safe, nice restaurants, convenient to transporation into philadelphia
Now let's look at what reviewers say about Chesterbrook:
Great place to raise a family and the most economic way to get into the TE school district. We have lived here for 18 years and would not live anywhere else
Housing in my area is great. There are very little abandoned buildings because of how prosperous the area is
This is an amazing area. Anyone growing up here is very lucky. I see this area staying the same in the future. Its self sustainable.
The top place to buy a house in PA is Houserville, an unincorporated section of Centre County that's just outside of the Penn State campus, made the national list.
You can see the full list of the 100 best places to buy a house in PA here.
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