3,143 COUNTIES · ONE INDEX
There is no American housing market. There are 3,143 of them.
Gross yields across United States counties run from 2.9 percent to 18 percent. Any single national figure averages that spread away. The United States is the largest market Smart Bricks indexes, and the only practical way through it is coverage.
United States
- INDEX RANK
- #001
- COVERAGE TIER
- TIER A
- PROPERTY STOCK INDEXED
- $87.5T
- GDP (2024)
- $29.2T
- SOURCES INDEXED
- 353
PRIMARY MARKETS
New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Phoenix, Philadelphia
This market’s record in the Smart Bricks index. All 207 countries
- Total value of United States housing
- $55.1T
- Source: Zillow Research, September 2025
- Gross yield range across US counties
- 2.9-18%
- Source: ATTOM, 2025
- Price growth, 2020 to 2025
- +54.5%
- Source: FHFA
Every figure on this page is either Smart Bricks’ own index record or a third-party figure with its source named beside it. Where no figure can be sourced, this page says so rather than estimating.
COVERAGE
Every county, or none of them.
Each of the 3,143 United States counties is its own housing market. An analyst covers a handful. The case for an intelligence layer is not that it reads a county better than a person does. It is that there are 3,143 of them, and the good ones are not where you would look.
- Counties
- 3,143
- Source: US Census
- Gross yield, low to high
- 2.9-18%
- Source: ATTOM, 2025
- Growth metros
- 9-11%
- Source: ATTOM, 2025
WHAT WE READ HERE
- Sources indexed in United States
- 353
353 sources nationally, 123 of them public datasets you can browse on Market Intelligence. County assessor, recorder and permitting records are fragmented across thousands of jurisdictions.
RELATED READING
What covering 3,143 markets actually requires.
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- How pricing models see a buildingA valuation model doesn’t see marble lobbies. It sees data. What goes into a machine’s view of an asset, and what is lost without the right sources.
- Why two identical apartments price differentlySame floor plan, same tower, different price. The variables that drive spread between near-identical units, and why averages mislead.
Name the metro. We will price it.
Smart Bricks does not publish a national call, because a national call is not actionable anywhere. Bring a market and the index answers for that market.
This page is for information only and is not investment, legal, or tax advice. Yields are gross and vary by county, asset class and date. Past performance is not a guarantee of future returns.