Before you play

What This Housing Figure Means

This game uses Numbeo's city property rankings for price-to-income ratio.

  • The ratio compares apartment prices with household income, so higher values mean ownership takes more income-years to reach.
  • It is a city-level signal, not a full mortgage simulation.
  • A market can look prosperous right up until you ask who can actually buy into it.

Housing prestige and housing access are rarely the same number.