The crime statistics generated a few different responses, and I intend to dig into those some more. Unfortunately my computer just recently went to the recycling center in the sky, so blogging is a bit difficult at the moment.
I did want to point out a couple of interesting articles that have floated past me recently though, all related to real estate in our neck of the woods.
First off, according to the good folks over at NWMLS (via Redfin), we are the lucky ones who live in South Seattle:
While the entire city’s closed sales are still at 8.40% increase in median price over August 2006, South Seattle leads the pack in growth, at 27.23% over August 2006. The number of closed sales in the area are way down, but what’s selling is obviously higher priced than a year ago.
27%. Wow. Maybe it's because we're soon to be only 18 minutes away from Westlake station?
What seems to be even more impressive is that we're seeing that 27% increase in value despite some trashy yards that seem to inflict Rainier Valley more then others:
Overall, the department issued almost 2,500 citations and notices of violations between January 2006 and the end of this July -- many for the same properties.
An analysis of weed and junk violation data from the 19 months preceding Aug. 1 showed that West Seattle residents were cited 419 times for deviating from city standards -- by far the most of any Seattle neighborhood as defined by Metro King County.
But that neighborhood is also the largest, according to county definitions. If neighborhood size is taken out of the equation, a smaller portion of Rainier Valley had the highest density of violations with 95, followed by Columbia City with 87 and Rainier Beach with 55. Greenwood came in fourth with only 38, and the Central District neighborhoods, including First Hill, Madrona and Madison Park, together rated fifth with 267.
Messy yards perhaps, but maybe that just makes the houses without the messy yards that much more valuable!
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