Trulia Hindsight

Gloucester is a small fishing town on the bay of Cape Ann. It is America’s oldest Seaport, dating as far back as 1606. Gloucester is located 30 miles northeast of Boston. It was first a shipbuilding center then later became an important fishing port due to its proximity to the Georges Banks and other fishing banks off the northeast coast. Gloucester’s beauty has also attracted many artists and writers since the early 19th century. Today Gloucester has many attractions and activities from musuems, antique shops and galleries. You can sail on a schooner or go whale watching. The small town has a large concentration of colonial (pre-revolutionary) and federal (1780-1830) architecture.

Watch SoMa’s growth over the past decade. SoMa has grown into a neighborhood of warehouses, loft apartments, art spaces, nightclubs, restaurants, office spaces from an industrial district of factories. Expect more changes to come with the many ongoing plans for redevelopment: Transbay Terminal, One Rincon Hill, Millenium Tower, 300 Spear Street.

Las Vegas is located in the Las Vegas Valley, a desert surrounded by the Spring Mountains and the Sierra Nevada. Las Vegas serves as the center of one of the fastest-growing metropolitan areas in the United States. Its population has multiplied by a factor of 30 since the 1940s-more than that of any other American city. Las Vegas is renowned for tourism, gaming, a dry and vigorous climate, and an assortment of indoor and outdoor recreational activities. The city is also booming in manufacturing and industrial employment, in the construction of new houses, and in the creation of new service jobs. Watch the city’s rapid growth. A peak in building all the way to the very edges meeting the desert has taken place within the last 5 years.

Miami is the seventh largest metropolitan area in the United States. Because of its city limits, Miami is the second-largest city in Florida (after Jacksonville), and the 45th largest city in the United States. Miami’s explosive population growth in recent years has been driven by internal migration from other parts of the country as well as by immigration.

Real Estate Boom
The first real estate boom started in 1896 with the arrival of the railroad. In the 1920s a real estate boom changed the area as new subdivisions and tourist resorts were built. In 1926, a major hurricane hit Miami and building was halted by the stock market crash and the Great Depression. On August 24, 1992 one of the country’s worst disasters caused more than $20 billion in damage when Hurrican Andrew hit Miami-Date County.