Aug. 30, 2009 - Best Places to Live in Seattle

Green Lake, Fremont, Queen Anne, Capitol Hill, Montlake, Ballard, Phinney Ridge, Broadmoor, Windermere, Laurelhurst, View Ridge, Bryant, U-District, Belltown, Madrona, Madison Park, First Hill, Leschi, Magnolia, Wallingford, Ravenna and parts of Wedgwood.

Earlier this year, Seattle Magazine had a Best Neighborhoods or  Top Ten Best Places to Live in Seattle (Area) that had everyone scratching their heads, as their jaws dropped at "Excuse Me? Who said so?". Well, in doing my stats this week the jaw dropper, best by far stats came in for the neighborhoods shown in this first paragraph. As evidenced by the data below, the buyers have spoken. The area from Downtown Seattle up to 85th was the clear winner! 

The under $400,000 category of single family homes, including single family attached townhomes, came in with astounding numbers. In no other area or price segment did we see the number of people buying (455) surpass the number of people trying to sell at present (133) to this degree. The second and upper level tiers, while declining as prices increase as expected, still...every category across the board appears to have outperformed all other areas of Seattle and the Eastside.

After I post the other areas separately, I'll wrap up the data to show how much better this area did vs. several other Seattle and Eastside neighborhoods and cities.

(required disclosure - The stats in this post and graph are not compiled, verified or posted by The Northwest Multiple Listing Service - the are hand calculated by ARDELLd)

Aug. 31, 2009 - RE: Best Places to Live in Seattle

I always find any kind of "Best Places to Live" articles interesting. It seems very common for those lists to go hand-in-hand with real estate pricing, but not always. I'm curious how much those kinds of list influence the real estate market.

Sep. 1, 2009 - RE: Best Places to Live in Seattle

DT,

I think the list of "Best Places" based on what people actually choose, vs statistical data, are likely more reliable. It seems the one on the link was pulling places where prices are lower, but they are lower because it is where people do not choose to buy most often, so I don't think that's a good list of "best places".

Affordability is not always a good indicator of "best"...in fact rarely is it a good indicator of "best".

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Nov. 18, 2009 - RE: Best Places to Live in Seattle

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