{"id":499,"date":"2025-12-03T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adelyahomes.com\/blog\/?p=499"},"modified":"2025-12-03T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T15:00:00","slug":"hidden-costs-of-homeownership-in-the-dc-metro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adelyahomes.com\/blog\/?p=499","title":{"rendered":"Hidden Costs of Homeownership in the DC Metro"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\"\n                src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/adelya-almetova-2258751\/hidden-costs-dc\"\n                frameborder=\"0\"\n                allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"\n                allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>The avg US homeowner now pays ~$16K\/yr in hidden homeownership costs, including maintenance, insurance, and property taxes.<br \/>\nThese hidden costs are rising faster than household incomes, 4.7% vs. 3.8% over the past year.<br \/>\nHomeowners in the DC metro face hidden costs of ~$17.7K\/yr, above the national avg.<br \/>\nProperty taxes are ~$5.3K annually, and maintenance adds ~$10.7K\/yr.<br \/>\nInsurance costs (~$1.7K) remain below the national avg, but total expenses are still substantial.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The avg US homeowner now pays ~$16K\/yr in hidden homeownership costs, including maintenance, insurance, and property taxes. These hidden costs are rising faster than household incomes, 4.7% vs. 3.8% over the past year. Homeowners in the DC metro face hidden costs of ~$17.7K\/yr, above the national avg. Property taxes are ~$5.3K annually, and maintenance adds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adelyahomes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adelyahomes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adelyahomes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adelyahomes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adelyahomes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.adelyahomes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501,"href":"https:\/\/www.adelyahomes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions\/501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adelyahomes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adelyahomes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adelyahomes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adelyahomes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}