According to the National Association of Realtors, the median price of an existing home sold in April was $414,000. Of course, home prices vary from state to state, city to city and even ...

"If you bought a home in 1979, the average cost was $75,000. Those were the days," Bankson told First Coast News. "If you bought that same home, that same product, now it would be $531,000.

Zillow's data shows that home values have climbed 182% nationwide and 200% in the state of New Jersey since 2000.