Home away from home

Florida plays a major role on a list of top summer vacation home markets, which isn't much of a surprise.

The bigger surprise: One of the metrics in the study, from Attom Data Solutions, is comfortable summer temperatures. Yet the sweltering Sunshine State still managed to place 22 cities in top 40, with 11 of those 22 on the Gulf Coast.

Attom analyzed the most popular vacation home cities, where at least one in every 12 buyers looks for a second home. Then it ranked the cities in a combination of several factors — air quality, low crime, appreciating home values over the past five years and reasonable home prices.