$1 MILLION DOESN’T BUY WHAT IT USED TO

You too can live in a tiny dump for the low low price of $1 million courtesy of Janet Yellen and her bubblicious levels of zero interest rate debt dropped from helicopters on Wall Street. You can pretend to live like the .1%, except in a 1,300 square foot hovel. This will surely end well.

San Francisco


Skybox Realty

Headed to the city of cable cars, fog and killer home prices? Move to this $929,000 apartment that is within walking distance of the Financial District and Union Square. Listed as a “Spacious 1 Bedroom + Den, 1 Bath,” it’s a cozy 837 square feet. Bonus points: It comes with a parking spot.

Los Angeles

Redfin

In Los Angeles you can get a little bit more square footage for your money than in San Francisco. How about this $930,000 home that’s 3 bedrooms and 1.75 baths for a total of 1,332 square feet. The West Los Angeles home is even big enough for a second refrigerator and a finished two car garage.

Arlington, Virginia


Virginia Seekford Smith

This two bedroom, one bathroom home in Arlington, Virginia, will cost you $1 million, but you get two adjoining lots for a total of 5,000 square feet of space. The average sale price of a luxury home in Washington, D.C. is $2,402,000.

Miami Beach, Florida


Redfin

This two-bedroom, two-bath home comes in just under $1 million, listed at $995,000. It’s located one block from a park and comes with a private pool. It also happens to be located in the city with the highest average luxury-sale price in the U.S., at $8,337,000.

Buena Park, California


OC Homes Realty

This $1.1 million home is 1,050 square feet of a three-bedroom, 1.5-bathroom house. The listing describes this house as “Excellent Exposure of Busy Beach Blvd & Artesia Blvd in Buena Park.”

Here are the 10 cities with the priciest luxury housing in the fourth quarter:

Rank City Average Luxury Sale Price
1 Miami Beach, FL $8,337,000
2 Los Angeles, CA $4,808,000
3 San Francisco, CA $4,668,000
4 Boston, MA $3,380,000
5 Irvine, CA $3,180,000
6 Kirkland, WA $2,506,000
7 Bellevue, WA $2,435,000
8 Huntington Beach, CA $2,426,000
9 Washington, DC $2,402,000
10 Fort Lauderdale, FL $2,353,000
Source: Redfin

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