Meeker County’s tension is measured home-price appreciation versus an unmeasured rent base, weakening workplace employment, and flood-related carrying risk. Income-focused landlords should investigate leases and insurance; files relying on assumed rent or a short resale window warrant caution. Zillow’s 2026-06 observation put county median home value at $297,461, up 6.31% year over year. FHFA’s 2025 annual repeat-transaction index rose 5.27% annually and 52.51% cumulatively over five years. It supports direction, not a dollar value; its method and vintage cannot be averaged with Zillow.
No county market asking rent is published; therefore gross yield cannot be calculated. The $997 HUD FMR is a payment standard, not measured asking rent. The effective property-tax rate is 0.9%, with $2,243 median annual tax. Modeled climate loss equals 0.12% of building value per year and accords with inland flood as the dominant hazard. These are carrying-cost and resilience checks, not a valuation or realized-loss measure.
Realtor.com’s separate 2026-06 MLS listing market showed 59 active listings and reported marketing-time and price-reduction measures. These are visible asking-market supply, marketing-time, and seller-concession indicators—not closed-sale prices or standalone buyer-demand proof. QCEW recorded 7,794 annual average covered jobs at county workplaces, down 3.08% from the prior annual average; Manufacturing is the largest disclosed private supersector, not the entire economy. Departures exceeded arrivals, but average AGI was higher for incoming than outgoing tax-return movers. Investors accounted for 3.9% of 231 purchases, a limited recorded non-owner-occupant share rather than the whole buyer pool.
Limits are material: lease comps, vacancy, tenant incomes, closed-sale transactions, property-level flood zones, insurance quotes, deductible terms, condition, and financing costs are not published. Their absence prevents gross-yield, debt-service, post-expense cash-flow, and property-specific resilience conclusions. Next checks should compare actual lease terms with taxes and insurance, verify flood exposure and mitigation by parcel, and test recent closed transactions against the listing evidence. County aggregates cannot establish neighborhood-level renter depth, buyer demand, or loss experience.