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[fortyshooter]

What is driving the price up for real estate way out in Montana? Friend of mine sold his 50 acre place with airplane hangar and grass runway with a beautiful home for 700,000 here in Central Va.

[GeoBoy]

Gene, the one in Stevensville is nice but is it close to the VA and services?

[Sir Henry]

What is driving the price up for real estate way out in Montana? Friend of mine sold his 50 acre place with airplane hangar and grass runway with a beautiful home for 700,000 here in Central Va.

Rich people moving in from Washington.

[Sir Henry]

Gene, the one in Stevensville is nice but is it close to the VA and services?

Not really. Some towns have clinics but Helena is the main hospital.

[markiver54]

I’m going to drive over to look at the Lakeside home on Sunday/Monday. I might just pull my trailer and sleep in it. The cheapest hotel was $350.

Yes, I think I would take the trailer.

[Sir Henry]

How about life on a river.

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[GeoBoy]

This one on the river is nice, what about the river flooding?

[Hatchdog]

What is driving the price up for real estate way out in Montana? Friend of mine sold his 50 acre place with airplane hangar and grass runway with a beautiful home for 700,000 here in Central Va.

Forty, it’s not just Montana. It’s Idaho, Eastern Washington, Arizona and others. For the last 18 months there’s been a big exodus of people from the big cities on the west coast. Between the crime (read peaceful protests) and the “new” ability to work from home people are taking advantage of their big city (expensive) home equity and moving to these areas. Bringing along boat loads of cash and there are incredible bidding wars going on here and in the other states I mentioned.

My sister just listed her condo that she has lived in for over 20 years and as of two days ago has had four offers over listing price. At the same time she showed me a picture of a really nice 3 bed 2 bath single level home in Pennsylvania (where she moved to last week) for $139K. The same home in Spokane would be 300K +.

According to Zillow my place is worth $400K more than I have invested in it and we built in 2015-16. Crazy. But it’s rural property in Eastern Washington which is highly desirable to many looking to escape the big cities on the coast. I have no intention to sell as I would just be in the same bidding wars as everybody else. Would love to move 40 miles east to Idaho due to the political climate but it’s not worth the hassle right now.

That 50 acre place of your friends would be a 3 million dollar property here.

[markiver54]

Kinda close to the neighbors...didn't you want more privacy?

[Sir Henry]

This one on the river is nice, what about the river flooding?

I’m more concerned about the airport 500 yards to the north. Thank you MapQuest. The river has been raised 70 feet by a dam about a mile downstream.