Posted on 09/18/2020 8:19:24 AM PDT by Vigilanteman
Sorry to take up space for what is essentially a vanity post. But this is interesting and important enough that I would like other Freepers to weigh in from their various parts of the country.
We live in a mature working class neighborhood about an hour's drive ESE of Pittsburgh, PA. We've been here just under 20 years.
Most of the homes in the neighborhood, including ours, were built about 50 years ago. It has been a fairly stable neighborhood which includes neighbors who work for the Pennsylvania State Police and leave their cruisers parked in the driveway.
Trump signs outnumber Biden signs by a ratio of 4 or 5 to 1 and that doesn't include supporters like us who don't put out lawn signs for various reasons.
Our lot size is about 1/5th of an acre which is, slightly but not much more than the 1/6th acre average. In a normal year, property values will fluctuate up and down, but normally no more than about 3 to 4% on an annual basis. Except this year it is already up 10%, just about all of that increase taking place in the last three months.
And it isn't just our little corner lot, it is the entire neighborhood.
(Excerpt) Read more at zillow.com ...
Over a year’s time or what? In my book, that’s still too much. Property owners are being ripped off to pay for the rotten government school systems.
Google: Zillow, name of the town
In Brooklyn Park and Brooklyn Center or Golden Valley, Minnesota.
The prices has double or tripled since 2012.
I live in Southern Connecticut. I could probably sell my condo for a 50% profit - if I wanted to. People from the city moving to Fairfield County (and Westchester County, NY) in droves.
Same here. As soon as word got out that we were selling my moms home, the offers came in. We never even officially listed it. There was a small bidding war among the locals.
I heard it’s because of the low interest rates.
Thanks; listening to it now.
Seinfeld recently appeared with Schumer begging for a bailout of the theaters. Let him bail them out; to younger people he’s something from the WW2 era...
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