Home prices in federally designated Opportunity Zones are surging alongside the broader housing market, with nearly 31% of these targeted redevelopment areas seeing median home prices jump by at least 10% year over year in the fourth quarter of 2025, according to a new report from property data provider Attom.
Opportunity Zones are areas defined in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 as census tracts in or near low-income neighborhoods that meet certain redevelopment criteria. They aim to spur economic growth and job creation in low-income communities while providing tax benefits to investors.
The Attom data reveals that while price growth across Opportunity Zones broadly tracks with national trends, these low-income tracts are slightly outperforming the wider market in high-end appreciation.
Despite this growth, Opportunity Zones remain a bastion of relative affordability. More than half of the zones recorded median sales prices below $225,000, well under the national median.
The report, which analyzes over 3,600 census tracts with sufficient sales data, found that the housing market in economically distressed areas is behaving similarly to the rest of the nation. Attom reported that median single-family home and condo prices rose in 46.4% of Opportunity Zone tracts over the year. This compares closely to 49.2% of census tracts outside the zones that saw gains.
However, the intensity of the price spikes was more pronounced within the zones. Approximately 30.7% of Opportunity Zone tracts saw median prices increase by at least 10% annually, compared to 28.8% of tracts outside the zones.
“The fact that price growth is happening in Opportunity Zones at roughly the same rate it’s happening outside of them is a further sign that all sectors of the housing market are being affected by this sustained price increase,” said Rob Barber, CEO of Attom, in commentary accompanying the report.
“It may be particularly encouraging for owners in these targeted redevelopment areas to see that nearly a third of Opportunity Zones saw double digit price growth,” he added.
Despite the rapid appreciation in some areas, these zones generally continue to offer significantly lower price points than the national average. Attom found that in the fourth quarter of 2025, 50.9% of these tracts had median sale prices below $225,000, while only 20.8% posted median prices at or above the national median of $365,000.
However, Attom cautioned that the median price measurements can be volatile in these zones because of low sales volume compared to normal neighborhoods. According to the data, 89% of Opportunity Zone tracts saw typical prices fluctuate by more than 5% over the year, indicating that median home prices in these areas can be highly sensitive to individual transactions.
