{"id":7330,"date":"2009-09-23T12:00:38","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T19:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/?p=7330"},"modified":"2009-09-23T12:12:28","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T19:12:28","slug":"list-prices-seattle-vs-other-large-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/23\/list-prices-seattle-vs-other-large-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"List Prices: Seattle vs. Other Large Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Admittedly, <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/22\/high-end-real-estate-seattle-vs-wisconsin\/\" title=\"High End Real Estate: Seattle vs. Wisconsin\">yesterday&#8217;s post<\/a> comparing home prices in Seattle to a remote location in Wisconsin really wasn&#8217;t fair.  Granted, it was posted more for humor than for serious consideration, but there are certainly better comparisons that we could have made.<\/p>\n<p>So what would be more fair?  How about if we take the top 25 cities in the country by population, and see how Seattle home prices stack up?<\/p>\n<p>Here are the top 25 cities in the United States, sorted by population based on Census Bureau estimates from July 2008 (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/US_Cities_by_population\" title=\"Wikipedia: List of United States cities by population\">source<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p style=\"width: 393px; margin: 5px auto; font-size: 0.8em; text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/top-25-by-population.png\" style=\"border: 0; margin: 5px;\" title=\"Top 25 US Cities by Population\" alt=\"Top 25 US Cities by Population\" width=\"393\" height=\"521\"><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s the same list of cities, sorted by population density (people per square mile):<\/p>\n<p style=\"width: 393px; margin: 5px auto; font-size: 0.8em; text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/top-25-by-pop-density.png\" style=\"border: 0; margin: 5px;\" title=\"Top 25 US Cities by Population\" alt=\"Top 25 US Cities by Population\" width=\"393\" height=\"521\"><\/p>\n<p>Now here&#8217;s the same list of cities, sorted by median list price (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zillow.com\/local-info\/WA-Seattle\/r_16037\/\" title=\"Zillow Local Info: Seattle\">source<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p style=\"width: 472px; margin: 5px auto; font-size: 0.8em; text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/top-25-by-pop-median-list.png\" style=\"border: 0; margin: 5px;\" title=\"Top 25 US Cities by Population, Sorted by Median List Price\" alt=\"Top 25 US Cities by Population, Sorted by Median List Price\" width=\"472\" height=\"521\"><\/p>\n<p>Detroit at #25 makes sense to me.  Seattle at #3 above New York, Los Angeles, Boston, and Chicago&#8230; not so much.  I guess Seattle is still special (at least in the minds of sellers)!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Admittedly, yesterday&#8217;s post comparing home prices in Seattle to a remote location in Wisconsin really wasn&#8217;t fair. Granted, it was posted more for humor than for serious consideration, but there are certainly better comparisons that we could have made. So what would be more fair? 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