How to Use the Sunbelt in a Sentence
the Sunbelt
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Rental communities like Avilla have expanded rapidly in the Sunbelt over the last decade.
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Nathaniel Meyersohn,
CNN Money,
24 Apr. 2026
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JPMorgan said prices are falling quickest on the West Coast and in the Sunbelt.
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Jason Ma,
Fortune,
9 Feb. 2026
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Like much of the Sunbelt, these areas continue to attract buyers, often drawn by lower prices and robust housing supply.
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Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
5 Sep. 2025
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In the Sunbelt, where many of its shops are located, people can drink iced tea and sweet tea throughout the year because of the warmer weather, though some, of course, prefer coffee.
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Gary Stern,
Forbes.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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Today, more than six in ten people live in the Sunbelt, with White Americans comprising about half or less of the population there.
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Marc Ramirez,
USA Today,
28 Mar. 2026
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Climate risks in the Sunbelt region have also discouraged some buyers from following through on contracts, according to Redfin.
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Sydney Lake,
Fortune,
23 Oct. 2025
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Unencumbered by office attendance, remote workers headed south to cash in on the Sunbelt’s warm temperatures, low tax rates, and new construction.
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Sydney Lake,
Fortune,
21 Apr. 2026
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Many of the Sunbelt cities in the top 20 have experienced significant population growth in recent years, boosted and maintained by their thriving job markets and economies.
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Giulia Carbonaro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Aug. 2025
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Due to lower construction costs and zoning laws, construction actually increased in smaller towns and secondary cities in less dense areas of the country — like the Sunbelt and the Midwest, according to Dietz and Fairweather.
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Hannah Parker,
NBC news,
11 Jan. 2026
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Last year, Cypress West and TPG Angelo Gordon formed a joint venture to acquire medical office assets in the Sunbelt and West Coast markets.
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Samantha Gowen,
Oc Register,
15 Aug. 2025
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In Texas, Florida, and Colorado, active inventory solidly exceeds pre-pandemic 2019 levels, Lambert wrote, because the Sunbelt overbuilt.
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Sydney Lake,
Fortune,
21 Apr. 2026
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These investments have fed into a resurgence of our domestic manufacturing industry across the Rust Belt (Midwest) and the Sunbelt (southern states like Georgia, South Carolina, and Texas).
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Kelly Fleming,
Forbes.com,
11 Aug. 2025
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