The tour book for our 2024 Housing Attainability Bus Tour is now available online. 

Home prices in our region rose quickly during the pandemic, and higher interest rates are putting the squeeze on buyers. Still, Greater Des Moines remains a more affordable place to buy a home than many other regions in the country.

We set out to find new construction homes more on the entry level of the spectrum in Greater Des Moines, and today’s tour highlights those homes, which are generally priced from about $270,000-$350,000.