Proximity to rail equals higher property values?

by Jim Duncan on June 1, 2008

What’s old is new again. Estately, one of the best real estate search sites out there puts forth this as fact -

When buying a home, living near rail lines is better.

I wrote about mass transit’s ability to increase property values in May of 2005, in which I linked to this story at RCG.* I wonder what the Anti-planner would say about this.

What Estately are doing falls in line with a story I have scheduled to post on Thursday this week - stay tuned.

*For real estate blog geeks (like me) the first line of my post in May ‘05 is intriguing to me - “Found this blog today with a very interesting story about the above subject -” “this blog” is the venerable Rain City Guide. :)

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