Houston’s housing market gained $42B in value last year, Zillow report finds

The Houston area’s housing market gained $42 billion in value last year, according to a recent report from Zillow Group Inc.

Homes across the region are now worth a total of $533 billion, the homebuying platform found.

Texas has the fourth most valuable housing market in the nation at $2.1 trillion, 5.9% of the share of the national housing value. The Lone Star State ranks behind Florida at $2.2 trillion, New York at $2.8 trillion and California at $7.8 trillion.

The full stock of U.S. housing,…