Let’s face it, yards look awful in November, no matter where you live. When I list a home in the dark of November, I say a prayer to the landscape gods, hoping the home owners have taken photos of their spring and summer flowers. These photos can be used anytime to advertise a home, whether…Read More »
Announced on CNN, Fortune Magazine listed Bellevue, Washington as #1, tops to live in and launch a business. The photo is a shot of Bellevue looking west towards downtown. Only a few of the cranes that hover over all the new construction, commercial and residential, can be seen. According to The Downtown Bellevue blog: “ The…Read More »
On the 12th of March, I wrote a post complimenting The King County Council and the county animal shelters for the lower euthanasia rate. The next week the wires were burning up with news about the deplorable conditions at these very same animal shelters. All last week the news was abuzz with allegations from Nathan Winograd and responses from…Read More »
Concerned about what could be happening on the BNSF rail line that runs along Lake Washington through the eastside cities of Renton, Bellevue, Kirkland, Redmond, and Woodinville? You should be. I’ve written a lot of pieces about the trails and rails on my Kirkland blogand watched it evolve over the last few years. We’ve gone…Read More »
Gorgeous, gorgeous, The Bravern is one of the premier condominium towers being built on Seattle’s Eastside. The Bravern is at the corner of NE 8th and 112th Ave NE, perhaps the new luxury corner of downtown Bellevue? Comprised of residential condominium towers, an office complex, and luxury shops anchored by Neiman Marcus and Jimmy Choo, The…Read More »
In honor of wearing “the green” on St. Patrick’s Day, I thought I’d share these resources and sources for built green and sustainable living. I wrote a post a few weeks ago with some suggestions from a Built Green classI took over at Windermere Real Estate taught by Rachel Shindler and Thor Peterson. The two had…Read More »
Sellers had a 14% chance of selling a condo on Seattle’s Eastside in February of 2008. ( click on 2008 year to date statistics in the link above for a chart showing the condo report) February, 2008 1230 condos for sale, 140 condos sold, 11% chance of selling. January, 2008 1059 condos for sale, 149 condos sold, 14% chance of…Read More »
The chances of selling a home on the Eastside in February 2008 ranged from a low of 9% to a high of 16.4%, with an average of a 13.7% absorption rate. (The absorption rate is the number of homes for sale in any given month divided by the actual number of homes sold that month.) Here are the real estate statistics for single family…Read More »
I report on real estate statistics on this blog all the time, but this post is about a different set of statistics. The stats from the Seattle Times article today which is entitled, Euthanasia Cut Nearly in Half at King County Animal Shelters caught my interest. Adoptions have been going well and the euthanasia rate is down…Read More »
There’s been a lot of press this past week about the torching of The Street of Dreams homes. My previous post was about this story. People were horrified by this senseless act. When reading other posts about the event, particularly the one on The Seattle P-I Real Estate Professionals blog, I noticed another thread in the…Read More »