Posted on 06/14/2021 12:41:50 PM PDT by blam
Why have thousands upon thousands of very wealthy people suddenly felt an overwhelming urge to buy a home in Montana? At this moment, Montana is one of the hottest real estate markets in the entire country. When a desirable house is put on the market, it can often spark a wild bidding war. Of course the vast majority of the potential buyers involved in these bidding wars do not actually have any roots in Montana at all. Vast hordes of wealthy individuals from Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York and other major cities are flooding into the state, and there is only a limited amount of housing to accommodate them. As a result, home prices are being pushed to absolutely absurd levels.
In the Flathead Valley, home builders have been working incredibly hard to construct houses for the new arrivals. The following comes from a New York Post article entitled “Montana, the sold-out state New Yorkers can’t get enough of”…
All around the Lodge, along Montana Highway 35, from Kalispell to Whitefish, are what the locals call “COVID homes,” prefabricated track houses that line up along what used to be a timber farm — all of which were built last year and sold at around $550,000.
“Most were bought sight unseen for cash deals,” said Doug Averill.
$550,000 may have seemed like a hefty price when those homes originally went up, but today $550,000 would be considered a bargain price.
That is because the average selling price of a home in Flathead County has now risen to more than $638,000…
In May 2020, the average sale price for a home in Flathead County was $447,387 — a year later it had increased to $638,992. The average number of days a property stayed on the market...
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That's because the locals are too polite to call them "BLM homes".
No blacks and it is safe.
Beautiful, but you have to like cold weather…
I can guarantee that the local wages do not support that high of home prices. The children of native Montanans will have to get used to living with their parents for quite some time.
To become Dental Floss Tycoons?
Dammit, should’ve known I wouldn’t be first.
To destroy it with their horrible voting habits. That’s what.
And that will not prolly change....
Wait until they get a blizzard in May and the trees have to bud a second time in July. I experienced this in southeast Montana in 1983.
Red october was my second choice! LOL
I will live in Montana. And I will marry a round American woman and raise rabbits, and she will cook them for me. And I will have a pickup truck... maybe even a “recreational vehicle.” And drive from state to state. Do they let you do that?
Someplace to run to when things get ugly.
You are right, they will not last through winter. Winter is brutal in Montana and these soft people are not up to it.
That would send anyone packing. I’ve been in -40° weather twice and it is not a pleasant experience in any way, shape or form. It is fun to spit and hear it rattle and crack when it hits the ground.
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When Ted Turner was asked what he's doing with thousands of acres of property in Patagonia his reply was "that's where I'll go during the revolution."
I’m glad that no one clued them in that they could get beautiful unspoiled property a lot of places in the midwest.
Our area has been getting an influx of old order Amish the last few years.
So they all flock to the same places like lemmings and screw that up too.
If you wouldn’t have posted it I would have
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