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How do home values near NRG Stadium compare?

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Los Angeles football fans have been rejoicing since the announcement of the city’s first football team and expected stadium. The NFL vote of 30-2 in favor of bringing the Rams back to Los Angeles, specifically Inglewood, has skeptics wondering what kind of impact it’s going to have on the local housing market and economy.

Trulia compared the current real estate conditions within a 2-mile radius of existing NFL stadiums and how stadiums built within the last decade impacted nearby home values.

Residents surrounding the Philadelphia Eagles stadium, Lincoln Field, are the luckiest in the nation with home values 44.3 percent higher than the regional home values. Houston renters near the Houston Texas’ NRG Stadium have rents that are a whopping 20.4 percent higher than the regional rent.

The home of the Houston Texans, NRG Stadium, was built in 2002. Home values surrounding the stadium are 28.8 percent higher than the national trends. The rental prices are 20.4 percent higher than the region’s average rent.