Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Quantifying the value added of cohousing

[Lynn Nadeau / Maraiah (welcome]

RoseWind Cohousing, Port Townsend WA, long built.
We've done some comparisons with nearby properties, and on that small  
basis could claim that being part of RoseWind is worth about $50,000  
in real estate value. However, over the years, most of our sales have  
been at prices quite comparable to what they would have been as non- 
coho sales. Now and then someone has paid a premium because they want  
the community, and we just had one resale available, but mostly they  
look around and see what else their money could buy, near by.

There may be a factor here in that our town of 8000 is quite a  
community itself. One can be outside of coho and still have frequent  
potlucks with others, sing and dance together, see lots of friends  
when you go to the Credit Union, Food Coop, library or Farmer's  
Market. There are street fairs, benefit performances and help-brigades  
to assist people who are ill, congregations of UU, Quakers, Buddhists,  
etc. Social activism. So -- for all its benefits -- cohousing here  
isn't in striking contrast to all the alternatives.

Maraiah Lynn Nadeau
www.rosewind.org