Size of U.S. homes purchased 2021

The majority of houses purchased in the United States in 2021 were between 1,500 and 2,500 square feet. These accounted for about 53 percent of purchases made by respondents in the survey by the National Association of Realtors in the United States in 2021.

Size of purchased houses in the United States in 2021

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Release date

March 2022

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Region

United States

Survey time period

July 2021

Number of respondents

5,795 respondents

Special properties

Primary residence buyers; real estate purchased between July 2017 and June 2018

Method of interview

Online survey

Supplementary notes

The source adds the following information: "In July 2021, NAR mailed out a 129-question survey using a random sample weighted to be representative of sales on a geographic basis to 129,800 recent home buyers. The recent home buyers had to have purchased a primary residence home between July of 2020 and June of 2021. A total of 5,795 responses were received from primary residence buyers. After accounting for undeliverable questionnaires, the survey had an adjusted response rate of 4.5 percent. "

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