ATTOM released its first-quarter report analyzing qualified low-income Opportunity Zones targeted by Congress for economic redevelopment in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. In this report, ATTOM looked at 3,403 census tracts in Opportunity Zones around the U.S. with sufficient data to analyze, meaning they had at least five home sales in the first quarter of the year.
The analysis shows that median single-family home and condo prices rose quarter-over-quarter in 42.7 percent (1,452) of the Opportunity Zone census tracts, and rose year-over-year in 44.6 percent (1,518) of the tracts.
In the first quarter, just under 10 percent (332) of the analyzed tracts posted their highest median home sales prices since the beginning of the Great Recession in 2008 and 30.8 percent (1,047) saw median home prices grow by at least 10 percent year-over-year.
Among census tracts that did not fall in Opportunity Zones, 47.2 percent saw median home prices increase compared to the same time last year, meaning that tracts inside the zones were slightly less likely to experience price growth than those outside the zones.
“In recent quarters, home values inside these targeted investment zones have been growing at roughly the same rate as the rest of the country,” Rob Barber, CEO of ATTOM, said in a release. “That’s a good sign, since these areas, which have historically been under-invested in, can be bellwethers for changes in the broader housing market’s trajectory.”
While the share of tracts that experienced price growth inside and outside the zones are similar, home values inside Opportunity Zones tend to be significantly lower. The national median home sale price in the first quarter of 2026 was $360,000. 21.1 percent of tracts inside the zones had median home values at or exceeding the national median compared to 49.4 percent of tracts outside the zones.
Other major findings from the report included:
• A greater share of census tracts inside opportunity zones (30.8 percent) experienced double-digit home price growth year-over-year, compared to census tracts outside Opportunity Zones (28.6 percent).
• Among states with at least 25 Opportunity Zone census tracts with sufficient data to analyze, Arkansas and Minnesota had the greatest share that experienced year-over-year price growth (59 percent of Opportunity Zone census tracts each), followed by Ohio (56 percent), Michigan (54 percent) and Missouri (53 percent).