Windermere Real Estate and The Windermere Foundation partnered with Zillow for its Thanksgiving Food Drive. All together, 2430 pounds of food were donated to Western Washington’s Food Lifeline. Congratulations to all who participated. Most of you know Zillow and Windermere Real Estate, but not the Windermere Foundation. Begun in 1989, The Foundation is an…Read More »
Have a wonderful day. Take time to say thanks for all that you have! Don’t forget those who may need help during these more challenging times. This year Seattle’ Thanksgiving may be even that much better, I hear we may have sunshine!
My brother was not really trying to rub it in, but maybe a little, when he send me a link to an article from the New York Times, not about the state of real estate in the Pacific Northwest, but about the state of professional sports. He, of course, lives in the land of the…Read More »
Sellers had a 12% chance of selling a condo on Seattle’s Eastside in October, 2008. ( click on 2008 year to date statistics in the link above for a chart showing the condo report) October, 2008 1324 condos for sale, 153 condos sold, 12% chance of selling. September, 2008 1414 condos for sale, 173 condos sold, 12% chance…Read More »
The chances of selling a home on the Eastside in October 2008 ranged from a low of 6% to a high of 11%, with an average 8% 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.) Numbers will be rounded off to the nearest…Read More »
My niece came to visit this past weekend for a few days, which turned out to be pretty tense for her, and she was one of the lucky ones. She lives just north of Santa Barbara, California, which was burning. She knew people who were being evacuated from their homes. While she was visiting, she…Read More »
Homes and lifestyles are changing. The dream of the suburban home with a yard, the two (or three) car garage filled with 2 cars still works for some people, but many people are rethinking how they want to live. A lifestyle is emerging all over the country and in the Puget Sound area called cohousing. Cohousing is the new…Read More »
James Lupori of Kenmore Undressed commented on my post in which I had said I’d been down in the California desert for some work (some) and some play (lots). I told him I hadn’t taken a lot of pictures, but thought I would share some of the differences with the architecture and real estate down there as…Read More »
The City of Bellevue and The Pacific Science Center have joined forces in Bellevue to create The Mercer Slough Educational Center. Here’s a link to a great article written by Kathleen Cragun on Issaquah Undressed regarding the new eco-friendly center down by the Mercer Slough in central Bellevue. I wasn’t able to make the opening…Read More »
The week started with 595 email messages, 898 spam messages and no posts on this blog. Ironic, since the last post was about how I was staying in the real estate game, and then I disappeared. (I did write a short post telling people to vote.) Here’s what happened over the past week or so: …Read More »