This was listed at 985k and someone paid 1.7m, 1987 house https://www.redfin.com/WA/Issaquah/285-Mt-Rainier-Pl-NW-98027/home/421641
Did a meta mate just complain about housing prices?
Stupid bidders. There should be no bidding. House should be sold on firs come first serve basis of lucky draw if it has multiple contenders
Lol. You may want to take some economy lessons.
To be fair it was severely underpriced at $985K, but $1.7M is insane!!!
Years ago I paid 500k for a house in Seattle listed for 425k. At that time I was outraged at how crazy it was to buy a house. Now looking back, I'm grateful for how easy it was back then compared to today...
Listing prices are a joke !
That buyer is already regretting. Market looks like have taken a turn
House is well a staged, street view shows well kept neighbourhood. But the location is not the best, imagine how much it would go for if it was in Kirkland Redmond or Bellevue. Unbelievable, I got a good comp at Amazon, but as it stands I have to sink half my lifetime savings, including retirement, to a house to live in Seattle. I have to continue to rent and GTFO here when I get closer to retirement. As it is the only people who can settle in this area are young Tech workers with their outrageous salaries. So much for diversity, ironic for a progressive area.
As a born and raised Northwesterner, I’ve watched Seattle/Bellevue transform into one of the least diverse places on the west coast over the last 20 years. Not even NECESSARILY talking about ethnically — you basically have 2 or 3 archetypes: young tech worker partying it up in a studio apartment, married EM/TPM where both parents work insane hours just to pay the rent and need constant childcare, and the go-getting tech VP who’s hit the top. Everyone else gets culled by the housing prices. Seattle has become a corporate shell of the city it used to be. Oh, and the homeless. That’s the last archetype.
☝️ Well stated.
1.7m is over market; that was a poor emotional buy. Don’t pay attention to listing price, pay attention to comps. Yeah, the system sucks but that’s the system
It’s bonkers. We bought a house in Kirkland for $800k in 2019. Now the house is worth $1.4M 🤯 so glad we did not wait any longer. Now we’d not get it.
That $1.4M is probably the zestimate. If you stage it well and list at that price, you will probably sell it close to $2M in Kirkland.
Yeah that’s definitely attainable, but we don’t want to move out. Only if we move out of state or country for good we will sell. Otherwise, it’ll be struggle to buy something here again.
No one wants poor people to be land owners, go rent an apartment like a good poor should.
Jesus… wtf man?
It be like that :(