For the second year in a row, Zillow — a real estate website — predicts that a specific city in New York will be the most competitive for buyers in the coming year in the United States. Buffalo is predicted by Zillow to have the hottest housing market in the United States.

In upstate New York, there’s a red-hot housing market to watch this year, according to Zillow — though its construction is struggling to keep up.

While the city is best known for being the home of the Buffalo Bills and the birthplace of the chicken wing, Buffalo became the booming metropolitan area to move to in 2024 and the demand is still going strong in the new year — and it turns out what defines a “hot” job market is a little more nuanced than I previously expected.

Buffalo, N.Y., will for the second year in a row be the hottest housing market in the country due to its job market stability and affordable home prices, according to a report released Tuesday by

Buffalo- a city that sits on New York’s western border with Canada has been named the hottest housing market for 2025, according to a new report from Zillow. This recognition comes as the city grapples with a growing gap between housing demand and supply.

For the second year in a row, Buffalo, New York, has secured the top spot on ... Meanwhile, Zillow attributes Indianapolis’s second-place spot to its strong home price forecast for this year.

Lower-than-average home prices and rent costs in Buffalo bolstered demand and helped to push it to the top spot. Buffalo, New York Indianapolis, Indiana Providence, Rhode Island Hartford, Connecticut

The second-hottest market, Zillow predicts, will be Indianapolis. The metro ... That includes multiple New York cities — Rochester, Syracuse, Buffalo, and New York City — as well as metros in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island.

Other cities that were recognized for hot real estate markets were Indianapolis ... like New York City would take the title, a different Empire State city earned the honor: Buffalo is getting ...