Elsewhere, such as in Vancouver, British Columbia, changing moorage fees and restrictions can frustrate homeowners. With few exceptions, new floating residences are no longer allowed in the city. In Seattle, for example, there’s a lot of government oversight when it comes to floating residences, and the homes have been subject to changing legal codes, permits and classifications.
Regulations and classifications related to floating homes can be knotty. But people commonly use houseboat as an umbrella term for all floating residences. Homes on the water that are permanently docked, such as the house in Sleepless in Seattle, are called floating homes or residences. The term “houseboat” technically refers to a floating home that is mobile. The four-bedroom, more-than-2,200-square-foot home sold in 2014 for more than $2 million, according to the Puget Sound Business Journal. The actual Sleepless in Seattle house remains one of the most iconic properties in the city. In the movie, Hanks’ character, Sam, and his young son, Jonah (Ross Malinger), move from Chicago into a picturesque floating home at the end of a Lake Union dock, and viewers are treated to shots of the nautical home and lakeside lifestyle throughout the story. “They are all over the world, but Sleepless in Seattle made us famous for them.”
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“Seattle was always known for its houseboat lifestyle, but the movie made the world think only of Seattle when they think of floating homes,” says Courtney Cooper of Seattle’s Cooper Jacobs Real Estate Group.
It wasn’t until TriStar Pictures released Sleepless in Seattle - a story about a Baltimore reporter (Meg Ryan) who becomes enamored with a widowed Seattle architect (Tom Hanks) she has never met after hearing him on a radio call-in show - in the summer of 1993, however, that Seattle became synonymous beyond the city with charming floating home living. The houses picked up steam in the 1920s for fishermen’s and boatmakers’ families, and they spiked in the ’30s as people became desperate for cheap housing during the Depression. Floating homes have dotted Seattle’s lakes for more than a century, originally as makeshift rafts for logging camp workers.
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