Also, that house is being gutted and renovated and then put back on the market for $1.5 million in 6 months.
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Also, that house is being gutted and renovated and then put back on the market for $1.5 million in 6 months.
Spent a day in Philly last month and me and GF absolutely loved the city. We were actually touristing in NYC and took a bus to spend a day in Philly.
We just want to go back and live there.
Half a million in my city gets you a three bedroom townhouse. The missus and I are planning to move, and a double car garage 4 bedroom detached house will run $750K+ CND
It's crazy to see how far your dollars gets you in certain states...
It's crazy to see how far your dollars gets you in certain states...
Greatly location dependent (obviously).
Within walking distance of downtown Royal Oak. The first one is really cute.
Right downtown apartment.
$500k for a small (if nice looking) apartment? Jesus.
Makes me so glad to be moving from the south of England (expensive!) to Wales later this year, where I can get a spacious 3-bedroom house for about £110k (about $140k USD).
Makes me so glad to be moving from the south of England (expensive!) to Wales later this year, where I can get a spacious 3-bedroom house for about £110k (about $140k USD).
$500k gets you a small early-80s townhouse with minimal to no updates in the DC suburbs. Forget downtown.
Depends on where its at (Charleston real estate is pretty nuts) but yeah definitely getting a better deal than any city in Cali
200K gets you a mansion in the Atlanta area - 500k definitely in the North Atlanta area
on that note, please stop moving to Atlanta
We have to start taxing empty homes in cities until they are no longer profitable investments. Cities are going to be more expensive than the burbs for a long time because of the incentive structures we setup 60 years ago, but these differences are way more driven by artificial scarcity. More infill, more duplexs/triplexes, build higher.
One of the famous "Painted Ladies" houses in SF is selling for 2.75 million and needs ALOT of work yet is still some how a deal
A really nice house just off a super popular street. It's about 5 minutes from the heart of Downtown Tulsa. They get even bigger out in the suburbs!
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Lived in souless cut-out suburbs throughout my upbringing and I agree, the space is rarely worth it.
If I had to do it again in my adult life, I'd end up like Dennis from that 1 It's Always Sunny in Philly episode:
That's a red herring. While you will be able to afford a home with a backyard in North Jersey/Westchester, the homes are still relatively modest and all the top towns/cities are still basically out of your price range at $500K. That is now even accounting for the high property taxes and long unreliable commutes (at least in North Jersey).
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What the fuck happened to this house? It almost looks like there had been a fire at some point. The inside is -trashed-.
Those houses also come with hefty property taxes or massive congestion
Anyone who can afford the house can easily afford the necessary restoration work, I guess.
US$500,000 is C$652,000. Let's see what you can get in Toronto for $650,000.
I can't wait to leave this city.....
I use to live there. There's a zoo to visit, that's about it though.
Omaha is awfully nice and I'm surprised more people who are trying to escape their backwater states and towns aren't moving there as opposed to the expensive coastal cities. You could easily turn Omaha blue if enough banded together. Affordable housing, silicon prairie, good cost of living, etc.
Whenever my wife and I visit her family back there for the holidays we are always floored at how cheap houses are in Dundee compared to Seattle. Hell, there are some cool looking old houses behind Midtown/Blackstone that would go for stupid amount back home in Seattle. I couldn't live out where my in-laws live though (West Omaha out by Elkhorn), all strip malls, planned communities on golf courses and zero walkability.
Whereabouts? My sister and her fella just bought their first house in Crystal Palace. 480k-ish got them the bottom two floors of a four story town house, narrow but really nice(and long) garden. Really nice inside apart from a small kitchen. It's still insane money to me but it's a definite improvement on the example you posted.Heres what you get in london for £375k = $486k
Baltimore Johns Hopkins Uni area ($499,000)
https://www.redfin.com/MD/Baltimore/2908-St-Paul-St-21218/home/10848418
Baltimore Downtown area ($499,900)
https://www.redfin.com/MD/Baltimore/1266-Harbor-Island-Walk-21230/home/11221970
https://www.redfin.com/MD/Baltimore/2908-St-Paul-St-21218/home/10848418
Baltimore Downtown area ($499,900)
https://www.redfin.com/MD/Baltimore/1266-Harbor-Island-Walk-21230/home/11221970
This thread makes me want to spend the next few vacations staying in the country and just visiting various "mini-metros" to find a nice retirement space.
I could buy two 4-5 bedroom houses for $500k where I live, lol.
I'm a solid 20-30 minutes from downtown of any city though.
I'm a solid 20-30 minutes from downtown of any city though.
This is the reason why I can NEVER leave the city.. wouldn't be able to buy back in.. lol
All sub-600k houses in Toronto require somewhere around 200-300k in renovations/repairs I bet.
A standard 25x125 lot in my neighborhood, Logan Square, Chicago, went for $300k minimum in 2019 and the price seems to be still going up. That's for an empty lot, or worse, a tear-down.
But then you're living in Texas.
(Sorry, Austin)
Oh, God the $500k Texas house is a McMansion in fucking Houston. That's like my personal vision of Hell.
But then you're living in Texas.
(Sorry, Austin)
Oh, God the $500k Texas house is a McMansion in fucking Houston. That's like my personal vision of Hell.
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That article makes me glad to live in Kansas City. You can get a decent 3 bedroom house for under $200k here. A $500k house is bigger than I'd ever need or want.
That sounds exactly like the house I lived in when I was a little kid. Wasn't on Harold Road was it?
decided its better to rent, save and move than buy here in Long Island
+500k for 70 year old houses with 15k taxes
nah im sweet
+500k for 70 year old houses with 15k taxes
nah im sweet
Woodland road I think? I've only visited a couple of times but it's lovely round there. London never appealed to me in the past but I could quite happily live in that area.
Close enough.
Looking at the map it's right next to the park. They have Victorian dinosaurs there!
For $334,900 you get this in Rochester, NY.
https://www.realtor.com/realestatea..._West-Henrietta_NY_14586_M45968-31975?view=qv
Or this one
- 4bed
- 3.5bath
- 5,067sqft
- 0.46acres lot
https://www.realtor.com/realestatea..._West-Henrietta_NY_14586_M45968-31975?view=qv
Or this one
- 4bed
- 3.5bath
- 4,107sqft
- 5acres lot
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I saw those! I loved how goofy looking they were! Kinda like b-movie stop motion dinosaurs.
You'd have to extend that map out quite a bit to find something affordable (for instance friend recently bought in Richmond for 500k)Lol.
There are cheap areas and pricey areas in the metro region, but in the actual city of Detroit, you could get a beautiful home, borderline mansion, for $500k:
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Damn some of those are ugly old houses.
The one in Houston looks great compared to the rest.
My house looks like it too (not surprising considering the fact I live in a Houston Suburb).
Though 6k Sqft? They dont mean the whole house right but the area around it (like the backyard and front yard) right? Cause $500,000 for that seems like a insane deal , my house is close $400,000 but is 3,500+ sqft. Too bad the one in the example is in the north east - too many crazy people living in the north of Houston lol.
The one in Houston looks great compared to the rest.
My house looks like it too (not surprising considering the fact I live in a Houston Suburb).
Though 6k Sqft? They dont mean the whole house right but the area around it (like the backyard and front yard) right? Cause $500,000 for that seems like a insane deal , my house is close $400,000 but is 3,500+ sqft. Too bad the one in the example is in the north east - too many crazy people living in the north of Houston lol.
When most people think of NY, this is NOT where they are thinking
NE Houston is the part of town most people avoid. I actually think I don't know anyone from there.
600k in downtown Greenville SC
-1400 sqft
-2bd 2br
-1400 sqft
-2bd 2br
500k in any major southern city should get you a reasonable size home. Even Jacksonville
True, but as a rule 500k in any major southern city should get you a reasonable size home or larger. Even FL has some decent ones in that price range. Plus for the people willing to move to the suburbs...