Read previewMoving into their 360-square-foot floating home a year ago was a dream come true for Sarah Spiro and Brandon Jones.
In 2023, there were 70 floating home sales reported on the Regional Multiple Listing Service, or RMLS, which covers the Portland area and a significant part of northwest Oregon, Portland Floating Homes real-estate broker John McPherson told BI.
Lily and Dylan Rose moved onto their houseboat on Lake Union in Seattle in June 2019.
AdvertisementHome insurance for a floating house tends to be about double what it is for a regular house on land, McPherson said.
Additionally, the float — the part of the floating house that's equivalent to a foundation — deteriorates over time, McPherson said.
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