The Best Places to Buy a Home Right Now...another one of these stories

[UnFrSaKn]

The OKC skyline was featured on the Yahoo main page under the featured articles. Exactly how old is this skyline picture? Jeez...

http://realestate.yahoo.com/promo/th...right-now.html

4. Oklahoma City, Okla.



Oklahoma City is the 4th best place to buy a home now
Photo: John Elk III/Lonely Planet Lonely Planet Images/Newscom

OKC has been booming job-wise, while the rest of the country recovers more slowly from the downturn.
Midpoint price: $109,400
Foreclosure rate: 0.24%
Price appreciation quarter-to-quarter and year-to-year: -3.6% / -3.9%
Unemployment rate: 5.2%
Year-over-year change in unemployment: -1.6%

[TulsaRobert]

That's great news for our state that both of our major cities were listed (Tulsa at #5, OKC at #4)! If it's any consolation, our skyline pic is out-of-date as well. :-)



Tulsa is the 5th best place to buy a home now
Photo: Mark Gibson/DanitaDelimont/Newscom

The energy belt is a good place for homeownership as Tulsa residents can attest.
Midpoint price: $105,400
Foreclosure rate: 0.27%
Price appreciation quarter-to-quarter and year-to-year: -4.1% / -9.3%
Unemployment rate: 6.5%
Year-over-year change in unemployment: -1.8%

[UnFrSaKn]

The Tulsa pic is like, "Uhh...I don't feel like walking downtown. I'll just take a pic from way over here."