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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.
Crossville, Tenn., topped the list. Port Charlotte in Charlotte County, with a five-year home appreciation rate of 115%, was No. 3.
Other Florida cities that made the top 20 on the ranking were Deerfield Beach, Delray Beach, Beverly Hills, Cape Coral, Satellite Beach, Fort Pierce, North Port, Lake Placid and Palm Coast. North Fort Myers, Davenport in Polk County and Dunedin all made the top 30, and Fort Myers ranked No. 41.
Imagine how could Florida would do if the summers weren't stifling? (Of course, then Florida wouldn't be Florida.)
Consider neighbors Venice, in south Sarasota County, and Englewood, in parts of Sarasota and north Charlotte County, ranked No. 25 and No. 27, respectively, on the list. The average summer temperature in Venice is 84.6 degrees, while it's 83.7 degrees in Englewood. The city sandwiched between the two, at No. 26? It's Bend, Ore. Average temperature: 64.4 degrees.
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