Certain housing markets are better than others for bargain-hunters, Forbes reports, and they're generally the ones with a glut of homes, strong job growth, and a low rate of foreclosures. Forbes rattles off its top 10:
- Salt Lake City: highest job growth in the country, and low foreclosure
- Raleigh, NC: expanding economy keeps homeowners in the dough
- Orlando: sleepier than South Florida hotspots, so not as hard hit by the crunch
- Charlotte, NC: excess inventory and an influx of transplants from the North