This is rich. I spotted the ad at right this morning. I laughed out loud when I read it. Specifically the first word there: “keep.” If you’re not wealthy, Seattle is already unaffordable by nearly any metric. Rents are soaring, home prices are hitting new all-time highs, and inventory of both rentals and for-sale homes…
Tag: transportation
How Will Ubiquitous Freeway Tolls Affect Home Prices?
With tolls of $1 to $5 per crossing coming to a floating bridge near you in less than a year and local governments planning to add tolls to every freeway as early as 2030, now is a good time to think about how adding such per-use fees to our freeways might affect the home prices…
Poll: If commute were not an issue, which county would you prefer to live in?
This poll will be active and displayed on the sidebar through 04.03.2010.
Beating a Dead Horse: Gas Prices
I realized we have beat the subject to death with a pair of posts and this week’s poll, but I had to at least point out a Rhodes piece in today’s Seattle Times on the issue of gas prices and home buying patterns: Will gas prices drive homebuyers away from suburbs? The article starts off…
Poll: Would you consider buying a home closer-in due solely to today’s higher gas prices?
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