Monthly cost of buying the typical home, at today's average 30-year rate. Change any number to fit your situation.
Zillow doesn't publish a rent index for this area.
Our forecast of +2.8% over 12 months would add roughly $498 a month in value to the owner's side, but the 80% range runs from −2.0% to +9.5%, so treat it as uncertain.
Estimates only. Excludes maintenance (often about 1% of the price a year), the return the down payment could earn elsewhere, and tax effects. Rent is the Zillow Observed Rent Index, a typical market rent for all home types.
Redfin, all residential, monthly. These feed the metro trend model.
Strongest forecast relative to the metro first. “vs. metro” ranks each ZIP within Forest City, NC (100 = strongest).
| 28746 Lake Lure, NC | $440,195 | ▲ 0.6% | ▲ 3.7% −3% to +11% | 100 |
| 28043 Forest City, NC | $189,745 | ▲ 5.2% | ▲ 3.4% −3% to +11% | 86 |
| 28018 Bostic, NC | $218,794 | ▲ 4.7% | ▲ 3.3% −3% to +11% | 71 |
| 28139 Rutherfordton, NC | $248,871 | ▲ 2.6% | ▲ 3.3% −3% to +11% | 57 |
| 28167 Union Mills, NC | $242,177 | ▲ 2.2% | ▲ 3.1% −3% to +10% | 43 |
| 28040 Ellenboro, NC | $186,459 | ▲ 3.6% | ▲ 3.0% −3% to +10% | 29 |
| 28114 Mooresboro, NC | $159,709 | ▲ 4.9% | ▲ 2.9% −3% to +10% | 14 |
| 28160 Spindale, NC | $147,503 | ▲ 4.4% | ▲ 2.6% −4% to +10% | 0 |