OliveBrnch90210

FWIW, if you need a realtor,, I've used this guy in the past, www.lindstam.com. and found him to be quite good. He's a PennAir pilot and works with a quality brokerage firm in ANC.

Trouser

That would be a very loooong commute. Especially in the winter, with 12 fresh inches of snow, and it's still coming down, and someone hit a moose on the Glenn Highway....you're now looking at 2-3 hours from Willow!

But, buy yourself a commuter plane, put it on floats in the summer, skis in the winter, and no matter what, you're to Lake Hood in 45 minutes or so!...at least that's what I'm trying to convince my wife of!

Best of luck

AKBeemer

Fit59,

The Nancy lakes area/Willow is a great area. Not sure if you have kids, schools could be an issue. There are alot of cabins in that area. Buy a smaller place in Anchorage, not the typical $700,000 F/O hillside "I really need a draft trip" mansion. Then buy a cabin.

The plane commute option is great also, but just consider that unless you have a hangar, winter time prep is at least a 2hr process to get ready to fly. If the road conditions are crappy to drive there is a 90% chance flying is not so great also. If ANC goes below a mile you are stuck waiting for a special to get into Lake Hood, and there goes your 45min commute.

Denny Chimes

Why not just put wings on that motorhome of yours and launch it down Hillberg? It would probably clear Six Mile at least. Oh yeah...wrong direction. I've been gone too long.

Tell Mrs. Trouser hello for us.

Where's my halibut?

Trouser

I might have to try that! I'm cruising to Homer in the RV this weekend. It should be great.

Your 'butt is in my freezer. We got plenty of it. I'll send some out next week if you want.

Sputnik

I just bought in South Anchorage. Looked in Eagle River as everyone told me it was cheaper/bigger. Ultimately just wanted to live in Anchorage more but I never saw the price difference. Prices were very comparable for similar sized houses. Additionally the newer homes up there were on the same tiny lots (5000sq ft) as the newer homes in Anchorage.

For what it's worth conventional wisdom was that cargo pilots live down South, easy commute to the airport. I'm military but hope to suck up for a job so hopefully we'll be neighbors. I bought my house off a JAL guy.

Downtown is extremely expensive. Gotten to the point that people buy a house just for the lot, tear down and start over. There are some awesome condos there though I didn't see anything that would be called a "high rise." My personal favorite was a little 4 unit townhome style, each unit had it's own personal glass elevator and started at $1.2M.

There's a new development just south of the airport, only a couple miles from cargo side. It's being built in an old gravel pit. I actually thought the houses looked nice but my realtor hated it, considering his firm was selling a lot of the houses there I figured he was worth listening to. There are some other established neighborhoods there that looked great, everything I saw was at least 500k. Much as I love airplanes I got turned off watching FedEx take off right over the houses. I heard it's not southflow there very often but it sure was the day I was in the neighborhood.

Nugget#69

Sputnik, Did youy happen to buy a house on Moose Dr. ?

Sputnik

No, it's on Beamreach

FliFast

What are the price ranges in South ANC for a 1500-1900 sf home....either townhouse or sfr.



Thanks

HazCan

You're looking at between $170-200 per square foot. It has started to flatten out a bit and I have read a few articles that say Anchorage is turning into a buyer's market. I am not so sure the sellers have always acknowledged that. I am seeing homes that have come back on the market with either: lower prices, now showing empty, or with upgrades (paint, flooring, etc). We are going up in a couple of weeks to buy, I'll try to remember to report back.

Haz