So you're thinking of buying a home in Anaheim. You're looking at the price tag and asking yourself: "Am I getting the most for my money? What kind of Erin real estate in Ontario or condo real estate in New York State could I get for this price?" It's a common feeling: that you're missing out on some great deal in another part of the world. To help put your mind at ease, we've compiled this article, where we compare the current market conditions in Anaheim with those in other popular regions in the United States and Canada. They're accurate to the summer of 2009.

Other Cities in Southern California

While there's no doubt you'd be able to buy several Scarborough homes for sale in Ontario for the price of any So Cal home, how does Anaheim hold up to its neighbors? The current average listing price for a home in Anaheim is around $468,000. By contrast, the average for Los Angeles is a whopping $1,184,000, which is more than double the Anaheim price. Meanwhile fellow Los Angeles suburbs Long Beach, Garden Grove, and Santa Ana come in at $529,000, $333,000, and $329,000 respectively. Moving further inland, we see a drop in price. Riverside currently sits at $299,000 while its neighbor Fontana is at $246,000.

The American East Coast

Moving on to the East Coast, big hitter New York City is batting a $1,976,000 listing average while smaller upstate Lagrange NY homes and Maybrook, NY homes are listing around $210,000. Moving further east we see Boston's average sitting at $737,000 while smaller cities in Maine like Bangor are coming in at just over $200,000. By contrast, if we drop down south to Florida, Miami is bringing in averages of over $400,000 while Tampa is doing a modest $327,000. Middling regions such as South Carolina are doing slightly better, with Charleston's average sitting at $542,000, which is up from previous months.

The American South

If you're thinking a house for sale in Arlington, Texas could be just the thing to bring some value to your investment, you could be right. That city sits at a listing average of only $190,000 while parent city Dallas is doing business to the tune of $508,000. Famously ritzy Phoenix suburb Scottsdale, Arizona is still bringing home the bacon with an average listing price of $814,000 while up-and-comer Albuquerque, New Mexico has recently dropped down to $314,000. Now's the time to buy into Las Vegas if glitz is your goal, average listing prices in the Nevada city are down to $289,000.

Canada - Ontario's Golden Horseshoe

Comparing Canadian and American real estate is tricky, given that the dollar fluctuates more often than a hospital patient's heart monitor, so here are some figures in Canadian dollars which you can convert yourself for up-to-the-minute accuracy. Big-seller Toronto's numbers are in the $500,000 to $100,000,000 range depending on your neighborhood of choice while Whitby real estate and homes in other rural townships like Barrie are running at $248,000 for a two-storey house. The provincial average is around $319,000.