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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 4,658 people, 1,797 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $215,882, house prices in Hollister are solidly below the national average.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Hollister, accounting for 57.71% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Hollister include large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 25.00%), duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 8.67%), and a few mobile homes or trailers ( 8.62%).
The most prevalent building size and type in Hollister are three and four bedroom dwellings, chiefly found in single-family detached homes. The city has a mixture of owners and renters, with 61.71% owning and 38.29% renting.
There is a lot of housing in Hollister built from 1970 to 1999 so parts of town may have that "Brady Bunch" look of homes popular in the '70s and early '80s, although some of these houses were built up through the early '90s as well. There is also a lot of housing in Hollister built between 2000 and later ( 34.38%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from between 1940-1969 ( 7.19%). There's also some housing in Hollister built before 1939 ( 6.90%).
Vacant housing appears to be an issue in Hollister. Fully 14.43% of the housing stock is classified as vacant. Left unchecked, vacant Hollister homes and apartments can be a drag on the real estate market, holding Hollister real estate prices below levels they could achieve if vacant housing was absorbed into the market and became occupied. Housing vacancy rates are a useful measure to consider, along with other things, if you are a home buyer or a real estate investor.
Appreciation rates for homes in Hollister have been tracking above average for the last ten years, according to NeighborhoodScout data. The cumulative appreciation rate over the ten years has been 99.53%, which ranks in the top 40% nationwide. This equates to an annual average Hollister house appreciation rate of 7.15%.
Over the last year, Hollister appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Hollister's appreciation rate has been 3.17%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in Hollister were at -0.73%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of -2.89%.
Notably, Hollister's appreciation rate in the latest quarter is one of the lowest in America.
Relative to Missouri, our data show that Hollister's latest annual appreciation rate is higher than 50% of the other cities and towns in Missouri.
$215,882
for Missouri
for nation
1,797
$1,222 / per month