Maryland homebuyers face a $433,112 median price, 3% above the national figure. Against the state's $102,905 median household income, that's a 4.2x price-to-income ratio.
Maryland's 0.92% average property tax rate runs below the 1.1% national average, working out to $332/month on the median home here.
Unlike the nine no-income-tax states, Maryland taxes wage income at 2%–6.5%. Worth running your actual take-home pay against the $2,726/month payment here before locking in a target price.
Maryland's cost of living index is 117, above the 100 national baseline. That's on top of the housing numbers above, not instead of them.
Maryland's median home price runs 3% higher than Maine: $421,966 there versus $433,112 here.