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the median household income locally (Wake) supports the median house price.
it's certainly true that you can't grow by 2,400 people/month without adding housing for them. We have the land in Wake County (not in people's first choice of course, it's not Western Wake), but there is room to build that's more convenient than what many are coming from.
Roughly same price per sq ft. as the house in the OP. Not a ton bigger, either.
Meh. The kitchen is nice sized but all the other rooms are twice as big as they should be. I would be out of breath walking from one end of the master to the other. It screams "builder inflated price by adding sq ft for no reason".
You see the same thing down in Dallas and Houston, it's not exclusive to our area.
I work with a lot of older folks who are in the midst of downsizing from large homes, the thing almost everyone mentions is they never should've bought such a big house in the first place. Oh, and buy a ranch or at the very least first floor master.
Roughly same price per sq ft. as the house in the OP. Not a ton bigger, either.
800 square feet, an extra bedroom, and an extra bathroom is nothing to sneeze at. Has/was been on the market for 77 days so we'll see what it sold for.
800 square feet, an extra bedroom, and an extra bathroom is nothing to sneeze at. Has/was been on the market for 77 days so we'll see what it sold for.
Of course not... it was the same price per square foot, though.
I mean, this was a square footage discussion at some point so I can see where the listing price may have come from.
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Meh. The kitchen is nice sized but all the other rooms are twice as big as they should be. I would be out of breath walking from one end of the master to the other. It screams "builder inflated price by adding sq ft for no reason".
You see the same thing down in Dallas and Houston, it's not exclusive to our area.
I work with a lot of older folks who are in the midst of downsizing from large homes, the thing almost everyone mentions is they never should've bought such a big house in the first place. Oh, and buy a ranch or at the very least first floor master.
I thought this house was enormous until I got used to living in it. I find the floor plan has a lot to do with whether or not a large house is comfortable and easy to get around. We don't have a first floor master, but we do have a decent-sized first floor guest bedroom and we could ignore a good chunk of the 2nd floor and all of the 3rd (mostly occupied by the kids) and that makes the walk around here pretty efficient.
Efficiency in a floor plan is crucial.
Otherwise, the space is all wrong. The house in question really does depend on the actual walk of the plan, not the sizes of the rooms.
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Meh. The kitchen is nice sized but all the other rooms are twice as big as they should be. I would be out of breath walking from one end of the master to the other. It screams "builder inflated price by adding sq ft for no reason".
You see the same thing down in Dallas and Houston, it's not exclusive to our area.
I work with a lot of older folks who are in the midst of downsizing from large homes, the thing almost everyone mentions is they never should've bought such a big house in the first place. Oh, and buy a ranch or at the very least first floor master.
I think the pictures might be fooling you because I just looked at the dimensions of all the rooms and they are not too large at all. The master is actually on the smaller size for a home like that IMO (13x17).
We also have a lot of older people that have and continue to move into our neighborhood so while you may work with a lot of older people that want to downsize there still are many that want a larger home. Luckily in our neighborhood we do have quite a few with downstairs masters which is a draw for us "older" folks ;-)
Meh. The kitchen is nice sized but all the other rooms are twice as big as they should be. I would be out of breath walking from one end of the master to the other. It screams "builder inflated price by adding sq ft for no reason".
You see the same thing down in Dallas and Houston, it's not exclusive to our area.
I work with a lot of older folks who are in the midst of downsizing from large homes, the thing almost everyone mentions is they never should've bought such a big house in the first place. Oh, and buy a ranch or at the very least first floor master.
1, it's got a 3rd floor adding up to that 3500 sqft. second, an 18x13 master bedroom is not that big ... maybe 2 ft of width extra.
Adding an agent's name to a discussion is indirectly advertising for realtors on CD and we don't do that. We also do not use the site to lodge consumer complaints against agents so unless you are an agent with the real estate badge beside your name and registered on this site, your name should not be on this site, either, when discussing real estate.
Now, you could argue that posting a link to any house for sale has the same effect, but it's deemed allowable by the TOS when posted off an aggregate site for the purposes of example, and that's what has been going on in this thread.
Carry on.
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