If Home Prices Guide Amazon's Choice, There's One Top Spot for HQ2

Pittsburgh has the cheapest housing among the 20 finalists
Los Angeles is the costliest, according to data from Trulia

Baird’s Colin Sebastian discusses where Amazon expects to open their second headquarters.(Source: Bloomberg)

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By Prashant Gopal

January 18, 2018 at 6:19 PM UTC

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If Amazon wants to locate its HQ2 in the most-affordable spot for housing, there’s an obvious choice: Pittsburgh.

The tech giant’s list of 20 potential sites for its second North American headquarters includes the Pennsylvania city, where the median home price in the fourth quarter was $129,900, according to data prepared by Trulia.com. By comparison, prices in the Los Angeles metro area were four times more expensive, making it the costliest option.