While you wait for Super Bowl week, take a look at Platte County real estate. If you are in the real estate business, be sure to read this article with a full stomach. Because the days of “selling homes like candy bars” are clearly in the rearview mirror.
Let's take a look back at 2019, before we knew China would bring the pandemic. In January 2019, he had 120 home sales in Platte County, according to local MLS data. By 2023, there will be 90 units. No one likes buying a house in January. What about summer? There were 238 sales in Platte County in July 2019, but only 128 in 2023.
Over five years of data, the highest monthly sales total was 275 in July 2020, and the lowest in January 2023 with 90. This low point is the only month in 60 months that Platte County had fewer than 100 sales.
Sales volumes are not so good news, but prices are a different story. Most people would like to see house price increases maintained. This is because housing prices increase the value of existing homes.
The median home sale price in Platte County in December 2023 was $350,000. The median sales price for the same in 2019 was $262,000. Over the past five years, the highest median monthly sales price was $412,067 in April 2023 and the lowest was $250,067 in November 2019. This is good news, isn't it? Unless you're planning on buying a house and can't time travel. Numbers are numbers anyway.
In this week's episode of Government Saves Us From Ourselves, we explore the city of Kansas City, Missouri, which persistently indulges the governance theory that “government saves us from ourselves.” . The Independence Avenue bridge is notorious for collisions with box trucks that exceed the 12-foot height limit.
The bridge was well-marked and did not prevent people from crossing it for many years. So rather than make people pay the consequences of not being able to read a sign that says 12 minutes, the city installed a “warning curtain.” Basically, they put up a dangling plastic curtain before it actually hit the concrete. bridge.
Now, let's wait. And no doubt, soon someone will slip through the warning curtain and crash directly onto the bridge, proving that despite the efforts of governments, nothing can save us from ourselves.
Perhaps requiring all drivers on Independence Avenue to wear masks would solve the problem. There can never be too much government to protect us from ourselves.
Perhaps it would be a good idea to install a warning curtain for the warning curtain. I'll probably win some sort of government “citizen contribution” engineering thought award for that proposal. Because if there's one thing the government would rather do than protect you from yourself, it's give you meaningless prizes like participation trophies in youth soccer tournaments. We will notify you when the wall certificate arrives.
(Guy Specman can read road signs and contact you)
