A national survey of housing markets has ranked Grand Rapids as the third healthiest "big city" housing market in the United States.
The study by SmartAsset.com, a financial services company, measures housing market health by the average number of years residents spend in homes, home values, ease of sale, and the costs associated with ownership.
Grand Rapids won its ranking mainly because of its low scores for "the "average days on the market" and the region's relative low cost of housing compared to household income.
Plano, Texas and Arlington, Texas, scored higher than Grand Rapids, the only Michigan city that appeared in the rankings of the nation's 100 largest cities.