Comments on: What You Get for the Money http://www.creativeclass.com/_v3/creative_class/2008/01/31/what-you-get-for-the-money/ The source on how we live, work and play Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:10:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Gary Dare http://www.creativeclass.com/_v3/creative_class/2008/01/31/what-you-get-for-the-money/comment-page-1/#comment-3226 Gary Dare Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:38:36 +0000 http://zstation/creativeclass/v3/creative_class/2008/01/31/what-you-get-for-the-money/#comment-3226 In this article from The Oregonian of 20071210 (link in my byline), a critic of city planning put up these numbers to compare properties: "Bashing Portland has become a cottage industry, and O'Toole is its leading figure. Click. Here's a slide showing a big house on a lush, green yard. This is in Houston, a plump 2,300 square feet for $170,000. Click. Here's a skinny house in Portland, maybe 1,200 scrunched square feet on a sliver of a yard. Asking price: $260,000." This property is probably in SE Portland, a similar one in NW Portland (e.g., Alphabet District) would be $360,000 ... my guess for Toronto is $420,000 in The Annex, and Chicago North Side around $500,000 in Old Town, Lakeview (Wrigleyville) or Ravenswood. In this article from The Oregonian of 20071210 (link in my byline), a critic of city planning put up these numbers to compare properties:

“Bashing Portland has become a cottage industry, and O’Toole is its leading figure.

Click. Here’s a slide showing a big house on a lush, green yard. This is in Houston, a plump 2,300 square feet for $170,000.

Click. Here’s a skinny house in Portland, maybe 1,200 scrunched square feet on a sliver of a yard. Asking price: $260,000.”

This property is probably in SE Portland, a similar one in NW Portland (e.g., Alphabet District) would be $360,000 … my guess for Toronto is $420,000 in The Annex, and Chicago North Side around $500,000 in Old Town, Lakeview (Wrigleyville) or Ravenswood.

]]> By: Michael Wells http://www.creativeclass.com/_v3/creative_class/2008/01/31/what-you-get-for-the-money/comment-page-1/#comment-3225 Michael Wells Fri, 01 Feb 2008 01:54:49 +0000 http://zstation/creativeclass/v3/creative_class/2008/01/31/what-you-get-for-the-money/#comment-3225 Same thing in Minot, ND or Burns, OR or Scotts Bluff, NE. These are places that are emptying out or static - nobody leaving, nobody moving in. When I was a baby my family lived in Adena, Ohio, maybe 100 miles from Pittsburgh. The last time I was there in the 80's I asked a realtor what my grandmother's old house (that my cousin still owns) would sell for. He said $500, if anybody would buy in Adena, but they don't. I just checked Adena on Zillow and got no information because it has no sales listed. Same thing in Minot, ND or Burns, OR or Scotts Bluff, NE. These are places that are emptying out or static – nobody leaving, nobody moving in.

When I was a baby my family lived in Adena, Ohio, maybe 100 miles from Pittsburgh. The last time I was there in the 80’s I asked a realtor what my grandmother’s old house (that my cousin still owns) would sell for. He said $500, if anybody would buy in Adena, but they don’t. I just checked Adena on Zillow and got no information because it has no sales listed.

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