{"id":468,"date":"2026-02-02T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vahidshams.com\/blog\/?p=468"},"modified":"2026-02-02T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T11:00:00","slug":"hidden-costs-of-homeownership-in-the-houston-metro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vahidshams.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/hidden-costs-of-homeownership-in-the-houston-metro\/","title":{"rendered":"Hidden Costs of Homeownership in the Houston 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\/vahid-shams\/hidden-costs-houston\"\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 \/>\nHidden homeownership costs in Houston avg ~$15.7K\/yr, near the national avg.<br \/>\nProperty taxes are relatively low at ~$2.9K\/yr, but insurance (~$3K) and maintenance (~$9.8K) keep total costs significant.<br \/>\nRising insurance premiums in Texas make affordability an increasing concern for homeowners.<\/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. Hidden homeownership costs in Houston avg ~$15.7K\/yr, near the national avg. Property taxes are relatively low at ~$2.9K\/yr, but insurance (~$3K) and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vahidshams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vahidshams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vahidshams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vahidshams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vahidshams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vahidshams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470,"href":"https:\/\/www.vahidshams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions\/470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vahidshams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vahidshams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vahidshams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vahidshams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}