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Let’s have a little fun on a Friday afternoon. Let’s say you play the big Mega Millions lottery everyone won’t stop talking about, and against all odds, you’re the sole winner tonight. What house (or houses) currently on the market would you buy? It doesn’t have to be in the Seattle area, if you’re only…
Let’s have a look at what kind of house you could buy today for about a million dollars in a variety of locales around the Seattle area and elsewhere. For buyers who have the money to buy a home basically anywhere they want, what kind of home can they get around Seattle and elsewhere along…
Here’s a little chart I whipped up that I thought was interesting. I pulled up a list of all the single-family homes sold for $1 million dollars over the last ten years in King County and averaged the square footage of the homes sold each year. The data from 2000 and 2001 was a little…
It’s been a while since I posted any anecdotal observations, so I think it’s time for a few. First up, the 8-unit condo/townhome complex in my neighborhood, which we have visited a few times before. Here’s the summary of the action in this complex of eight essentially identical units since 2005: September 2005: Unit #5…