Pushmataha County presents a split-price decision: Zillow’s rising county home-value measure conflicts with softer visible MLS asking conditions, so buyers dependent on appreciation or a quick resale should first test closed sales and contract depth. At the matching 2026-06 label, Zillow’s $160,147 median home value rose 3.71%, while Realtor.com’s median MLS listing price fell 8.74%. Listing prices are asks, not sale prices. A 91-day median marketing time and reported seller reductions describe marketing friction and concessions, but neither establishes buyer demand.
No county market rent is published, so gross yield cannot be computed. HUD’s $937 two-bedroom Fair Market Rent is a payment standard, not an estimate of asking rent, and cannot fill that gap. The 0.39% effective property-tax rate and $518 median annual tax describe one carrying-cost line, not total ownership cost. Property-level market rents, lease terms, vacancy, utilities, maintenance and insurance are needed before price can be linked to income.
Annual QCEW covered employment at county workplaces fell 3.48%, while the average covered-worker weekly wage increased. Education and health services is the largest disclosed private supersector, not a description of the whole economy. Tax-return migration was net 45 households, and entrants’ average AGI exceeded leavers’ by $4,624; those mover data do not establish ongoing tenant demand. Reported investor participation was eight of 62 purchases, or 12.9%; the share represents purchase mortgages to non-occupants rather than every buyer.
Risk remains county-level rather than parcel-level. A modeled 0.23% expected annual building-value loss ratio aligns with inland flood as the dominant hazard, but it is not a site-loss forecast or insurance quote. The FHFA annual observation is not published, so no repeat-transaction index is available to corroborate or challenge Zillow’s direction. Obtain closed-sale comparables, unit rents, vacancy and lease terms, insurance quotes, flood-zone and elevation records, and parcel tax bills; without them, entry price, gross yield, occupancy and hazard-adjusted carrying-cost conclusions remain untested.