While the Sunbelt may dominate real estate headlines for the large numbers of people relocating and buying homes in states like Arizona, Texas and Florida, further north, there’s still a number of robust housing markets.

A recent survey by the National Association of Realtors showed that nearly one-fifth of clients bought homes in the Midwest, where jobs, affordable homes and family and friends are attracting homebuyers.

People moving to the Midwest are coming to places like the bi-state Kansas City metropolitan area and Columbus, Ohio, where there’s been lots of development, said Jonathan Rappa with brokerage advisory service MMGRea. 

“There’s a confluence of factors that has really kind of seen development tick up in the Midwest,” Rappa said.