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Typically, we try not to indulge endlessly in hypothetical scenarios. But recently we couldn’t help ourselves when the real estate brokerage company, Redfin, crunched the numbers on the total value of each and every home in various cities and then cross-checked it with Forbes’ list of the world’s billionaires to see who could, theoretically, afford to buy a whole city’s worth of homes. The results are, well, interesting.
Denver
Total homes: 245,625
Value: $71.9 billion
Homes for sale: 3,321
Median list price: $319,900
Billionare buyer: Bill Gates (worth $77.5 billion)
Boulder
Total homes: 43,819
Value: $22.9 billion
Homes for sale: 708
Median list price: $599,000
Billionaire buyer: Mark Zuckerberg (worth $28.6 billion)
Aurora
Total homes: 119,463
Value: $24.5 billion
Homes for sale: 1,432
Median list price: $230,000
Billionaire buyer: Jeff Bezos (worth $30.1 billion)
Littleton
Total homes: 64,516
Value: $20.1 billion
Homes for sale: 827
Median list price: $302,500
Billionaire buyer: Steve Ballmer (worth $20.6 billion)
Fort Collins
Total homes: 65,211
Value: $17.5 billion
Homes for sale: 777
Median list price: $295,000
Billionaire buyer: Phil Knight (worth $18.6 billion)
Arvada
Total homes: 46,283
Value: $12.6 billion
Homes for sale: 527
Median list price: $284,900
Billionaire buyer: Charles Ergen (worth $15.4 billion)
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