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……..median price? 😬
Bellevue across the lake has a median price of over $1.3 million. The prices are currently down YoY for both cities.
Hence why Seattle needs more affordable housing. Now that HB 1110 allows denser housing in formerly single family zones Seattle Needs to become a city of fourplexes
I’d argue more than four. Since the population is spiraling out of control, we should expect a need for large towers. It’s also an efficient use of space and if they are dense enough, could have all the shopping one needs to live in a few blocks. And it should be affordable assuming “market rate” goes down with supply, and that the owners don’t prop up the rental market
Tue but smaller.buildings have lower coat per SQ ft and Seattle is mostly single family homes at the moment so even fourplexes would hypotheticallyincrease supply by 3x
At this point, all the people who can't afford to live in these cities, while providing all the services that a city needs to run and the entertainment, should just abandon them enmasse. If we could find a way to organize something like that, it would be incredible.
That would mean at least one house at 250k and at least one at 1.5m. that's not exactly crazy.
There are no houses in the 250k range. Not even a townhome.
Then there are also few houses in the 1.5mil range. Yay median!
It could also mean every house is the median price except for one that's fifteen trillion dollars.