Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: The "Burden on Local Schools" Argument against Development

[Diana Carroll (dianac]

At 04:04 PM 4/7/2003 -0700, you wrote:
> In areas not saturated with cohousing, the prices tend to be above-market.
> I'm sure there are several people who could corroborate that.

What do you mean the prices are "above market"?  (By definition,
"market" is the price that someone is willing to pay...) Do you
mean that co-housing houses tend to sell for above their
appraised values?  If so, that won't matter to the neighbors.
They don't care about the value of *our* houses, they care
about the value of *their* houses.  if our houses sell for
less than theirs (their big McMansions on their two acres lots)
that could (theoretically) exert downward pressure on the value
of their McMansions.

Peace,
D!

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