Interesting article. Those have become some very expensive dogs 
Two of the three starter homes had only one bathroom. I remember that from our NY years. In CO the homes are mostly newer, so not as many with single bathroom. With my old sense of dollars, it would really hurt to pay $800k for a 1 bath house and pay $17k/year in taxes.
Likely an investor who will never live in the house, just flip it or rent it.
Nah, I don’t think so. It’s a very desirable little town, on a prime street/location. I found out last week it sold for 22% over asking price. 
I would be very reluctant to own a home with only one bathroom. One needs at least 2 toilets & sinks for harmony among occupants and visitors, imho. Installing an extra 1/2 bath after buying a place isn’t a trivial addition.
We lived in our first home to 8 years with one bathroom, upstairs That’s how I know for sure that two (or more) is lots better!
Property tax for us is about $3k/year (house worth about $650K, though we paid less than 1/3 of that 30 years ago) - that’s with $500 senior discount. But there are outcries about upcoming increases, possibly up to 40%. For now we just have new assessment info and no details of how it will play out.
My parents each only had one bathroom in their homes (my father’s was more of a flat, the first floor of a 3 story house. My mother had 8 in her house (great aunt, aunt and uncle, 5 kids who were all teens at the same time), and my father had 6 (parents, brother, grandmother, cousin).
Both families still lived in those places when we were born and we’d stay with my grandparents most of the summer, so grandparents, parents, 5 kids with that one bathroom. Even if we went home to our house, one bathroom for the 7 of us. When my last brother was born, we’d moved and had a bath and a half. Luxury.
H grew up in a house with 3 kids and 2 adults with 1bathroom. Our apartment had only 1 bathroom but I’m very glad we have 2 now in our house.
I grew up in a house with 2 parents and 7 kids with 2 bathrooms. One would have definitely been more challenging.
My dad grew up in a row home with 1 bathroom and 9 kids.
I grew up in a row home with only 1 bath but there were only 4 of us.
Two things I never want to experience again - old city row homes and one bathroom!
My dad used to say that if he ever put an addition on our house…it would be a bathroom. 4 daughters…one bathroom. You know, we made it work.
I think one bathroom was typical of pre-McMansion homes. Growing up, I knew only one family who had a powder room in addition to the family bath, and we thought that was “rich.” I would have a very hard time living with one bathroom now. Even our cabin now has two (last year’s project). Both our previous home and our current primary home have four toilets on a single floor. I’ve gotten to the point where I’ll stay in a hotel before sharing a bathroom. How entitled is that? 
To relate to the thread title it will be interesting to see if bathrooms are important to my kids as they buy homes. Their home growing up (where we live now) is a 1925 home and there is 1.5 baths plus a “scary” shower/toilet combo in the basement which only H uses. I grew up in a family of 6 with one bathroom.
To be honest, I bet our water usage was less because you were forced to hurry up and not linger in the shower!
One of my kids does own a home - a 1923 home - and it is just a 1.5 with a cute powder room on the first floor I too would have considered spoiled when growing up. D1 jist mentioned the other day that when she and her fiancé look for homes (likely in a old home area - it’s what we like!) they will probably have to settle for 1.5 but HOPE for 2!
My son and his wife bought a 1930’s rowhouse in NW DC a few months ago. It has 3 full bathrooms( one private connected to their bedroom on an upper floor, one in the hallway on the same floor near a guest room/office/potential
nursery and one on the lower level next to a guest room) but no bathroom at all on the main floor (where entryway, living room, kitchen area are ). That seems to be fairly typical of rowhouses (no bathroom on main level) of that era in their area. That would be a major drawback to me but they are alot younger! You either have to head upstairs or go downstairs when visiting if you have to go! 
I grew up with 1 bathroom and our first 1921 home only had one bath on the second floor (and a scary toilet in the basement that we never used). I would not buy a house these days with only 1 bath unless it was maybe just a small one level house. And really want any new place to have a bathroom on the main level.
You mean the ground floor? I understand the desire for a half bath on the ground floor, for when you have people over, but not a full bathroom unless you have bedrooms on the ground floor too.
Unless you hope to age in place and can convert a main floor room to a bedroom…or already have a main floor bedroom.
Our son grew up with his own bathroom and had a single all through boarding school. Imagine his shock when he went to the academy and had to shower with 40 of his closest friends simultaneously in one open shower room (ten heads on each wall)! 
He covets his privacy now more than ever. His current house has two full baths upstairs and a half bath downstairs, but they are moving to a more expensive market next month and renting until they find a house that will probably not be as “bathalicious” as the current one. I sure hope I don’t have to find a hotel…
One of my kids lives in a small one floor completed house with one full bath only. If they stay there and finish the second floor, they will leave the bathroom on the main level as a full bath.
I would want a full bath on the main level (where any living room, kitchen are) and a bedroom on that level as well. A ranch home, for instance. Right now, we are in a 1920’s colonial with all bedrooms and 2 full baths on the second floor. Only a powder room on the main level. It’s okay for now but want something different when we move/downsize in a few years.
Our neighbors (who had also been college friends) at first house had a scary toilet in their basement…. we were envious. Luckily they were kind enough to let us use their shower when our bathroom was being renovated.
But in that case why not just buy a single story house? What are you going to do with the upstairs rooms if you can’t get up the stairs?
My parents installed a second full bathroom on the ground floor, to be used by guests. But all the bedrooms are upstairs so it is now just a very irritating trek to the bathroom for guests, and the shower is unused most of the time.
Some people already own a house with two floors. They use the upstairs rooms for when family and friends visit. And the main floor for their own living place. They don’t want to move to a single story house.
But we are WAYYYYY off topic here. I’ll start a thread about number of bathrooms in a house.