Ellicott City 21043

Howard County, MD · 14,402 properties · updated 7/26/2026

Should you buy here?buyer-timing lens

55affordability /100

Buyer leverage is seller advantage; weigh payment burden and the 3-lens valuation before bidding.

Payment burden

28.1%

stretched

Days on market

daily

Price cuts

20.1%

of active

Valuation

-41.3%

vs assessor

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/100

mixed

stable · seller advantage · prices easing year-over-year.

Verdict grades housing conditions; buyer-timing, investor cash-flow, supply-tightness and county macro scores answer different questions — each in its own section.

Buyer / sellerbuyer-timing lens

Balanced Market

DOM: 40d (stable) · Market Dynamics rolling median · hourly

Score Components

Payment Burden (25%)25

Valuation Gap (25%)40

Supply & Demand (20%)70

Buy vs Rent (15%)75

Cancellation Rate (10%)0

Days on Market (5%)40

Balanced market in 21043. List price is roughly fair — focus on condition and value. Payment burden: 27.6% of median income. Median days on market: 40. Renting is approximately 85% cheaper than buying (price-to-rent ratio: 22.2).

Balanced market conditions. Prices roughly aligned with fundamentals — similar to stable periods in 2014-2015.

STABLESELLER ADVANTAGE

Market is holding steady with balanced conditions. Sellers are firmly in control.

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Market snapshoteach number, once

Median price

$642,697

▾ 0.3% YoY

Days on market

daily · zip_data

Median rent

$2,493

ZORI

Investor score

42/100

cash-flow lens

Active listings

90-day

Valuation3 lenses, different anchors

vs assessor

-41.3%

Market vs assessed value — a tax-roll lag, not a deal signal.

Avg assessor$377,150

county CAMA · properties_v

vs income

—

Fair-value model not available for this market.

fair_value_scores · 10-state coverage

vs county comps

+43.4%

County-wide market — the widest, slowest signal.

Howard+43.4%

Lotvox comps · mv_valuation_gap

Read together: Above county comps but sustainable on local incomes.

Pricing detail

Price / sqft$247

Price-to-income4.5×

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How 21043 ranks in MD

percentile vs all MD ZIPs

Comparative ranking not available for this ZIP.

Affordability, supply & momentum

55SUPPLY

Tight MarketSupply Tightness

Supply is below normal — sellers are favored but buyers still have options.

Months of Supply6.4 mo

Days on Market12d

Inv vs History+30.5%

Listing Density--

Market dynamics

Price cut %20.1%

Momentumstable

LeverageSELLER ADVANTAGE

Months of supply6.4

Sales (90d)0

Investment analysis

Median rent$2,493

Price-to-rent22.2

Est. cap rate2.9%

Buy vs rentfavors renting

Livability

Walk score2

Transit score4

Bike score—

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Price bandsmix-shift

Price Bands — the median behind the median

A single median rises whenever expensive homes become a bigger share of what sells, even if no tier got more expensive. These are the tiers underneath it, computed from recorded arms-length deed transactions in Howard.

Current tiers · 12 months to Aug 25floor 10 sales/tier

1 tier had too few sales in this ZIP and are shown at county or metro level — see the stamp on each row. 6 tiers had too few sales at every level and are left blank rather than estimated.

Tier	Median	$/sqft	Sales	Share	Source
Under $250k	—	—	—	—	fewer than 10 sales at zip, county and metro level
$250k–$500k	$334k	$195	10	90.9%	METRO · Baltimore, MD
$500k–$750k	—	—	—	—	fewer than 10 sales at zip, county and metro level
$750k–$1M	—	—	—	—	fewer than 10 sales at zip, county and metro level
$1M–$1.5M	—	—	—	—	fewer than 10 sales at zip, county and metro level
$1.5M–$2M	—	—	—	—	fewer than 10 sales at zip, county and metro level
$2M+	—	—	—	—	fewer than 10 sales at zip, county and metro level
All sales (the headline median)	$368k	$195	11	100%	METRO · Baltimore, MD

No mix-shift history for this area. no geography from this ZIP up to metro has 8+ quarters of 10+ recorded arms-length sales across at least 4 price tiers. Trends are drawn only from recorded transactions; the last-sale snapshot above cannot carry a time series, because a property that sold twice keeps only its latest sale — which drags the history upward through the tiers and would invent the very mix shift this section exists to test for.

National context — not local

NAR's aggregate existing-home median for the United States and the South census region. This is the figure the tiers above are a check on. It is national/regional and says nothing about 21043.

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Copyright, National Association of Realtors. Reprinted with permission. Retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. FRED publishes a rolling 13-month window for these series.

Tiers computed from Lotvox parcel and deed substrate through Aug 25 (10 later months withheld as partially loaded). Sample floor 10 sales per tier; below it a figure is drawn from the county or metro and labelled, or left blank. Multi-parcel bulk deeds and duplicate records are excluded.

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Howard County contextmacro · jobs · debt · migration

ZIP score grades housing; county score adds macro distress (jobs, debt, poverty). They answer different questions.

ZIP 21043→Howard County, MD

12-Month Direction

+13Moderate Improvement

Confidence

100%

DeterioratingStableImproving

BuildersLens Market Intelligence

Market Score

40· Weak

Market Score grades housing-market conditions (affordability, valuation, supply). The county Healthy/Moderate/Distressed badge measures economic distress (jobs, debt, poverty) — the two can read differently.

Payment Burden55

27%

affordable

Source: Lotvox · Updated 2026-05-15

Buy vs Rent5

1.926x

rent advantage

Source: Lotvox · Updated 2026-05-15

Valuation23

+43.4%

overvalued

Source: Lotvox comps · Updated 2026-05-15