While home sale prices in Sugar Land and Missouri City soared about 40 percent each from 2010 -15, monthly housing costs in those cities did not keep pace, and they actually decreased by 7.53 percent in Missouri City, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Housing costs include expenses, such as mortgage payments, taxes, insurance, homeowners association fees and utilities. Those average costs for owner-occupied housing units with a mortgage dropped from $1,739 in 2010 to $1,608 in 2015 in Missouri City, according to census data.
In Sugar Land the average monthly housing cost increased from $2,123 in 2010 to $2,175 in 2015, an increase of only 2.45 percent, according to census data.
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