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Leavenworth House For under $100,000
Yep, some things are too good to be true. There have been a handful of properties over the years that would loosely fit that definition, but I have never seen a house that is inhabitable and that a bank would loan money on, for under $100,000 in Leavenworth WA. Most consumers start their home search these days on the internet. It’s pretty common to think that …
Icicle Creek Road Open October 8 2011
According to a recent press release from the USFS: Icicle Creek Road (FS Rd #76) on the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest will reopen to motorized traffic October 8, in time for the Columbus Day holiday weekend. Icicle Creek Road has been closed beyond Ida Creek because of extensive slides and flooding that destroyed the roadbed in 2008. All major construction is complete on a new …
Occupy Leavenworth
The movement to Occupy Wall Street has been much in the news over the past few weeks and now it looks like there is a movement to Occupy Leavenworth. In solidarity with our Bavarian brothers in Munich, citizens and beer drinkers from all over Washington State are descending on Leavenworth over the next two weekends. Giant tents have been erected next to the Festhalle …
Leavenworth Condominium Market : 2011 Fall Update
Leavenworth’s 2011 Oktoberfest is just around the corner and it’s prime time for vacation rentals in the city. Many of the most popular vacation rentals in Leavenworth are condos so we thought this would be a great time to look at how the real estate market for condos was performing in 2011. So far in 2011, only 8 condominiums sold in Leavenworth that …
Leavenworth 3 Bedroom Home Prices
After a recent post David wrote: Hi Geordie. Always enjoy reading your blog. I was curious what the median/mean numbers were looking like for the year in the Leavenworth area, so was interested in this post. But I also wonder if you have data over the past 3-4 years on average “3 bedroom sales price” as a means of comparing apples to apples? I …
Leavenworth Home Prices Spring 2011
The Leavenworth real estate market continues to have its ups and downs as it sputters in the direction of a recovery. At the end of 2010 it seemed like we might be headed in the right direction after surviving the horrible year that was 2009. Unfortunately, we had a quiet spring this year here in Leavenworth which is a reminder that we aren’t quite out of the woods yet. …
Pricing Leavenworth Houses : The Life of a Leavenworth...
One of the tasks we spend quite of bit of time on during the week is pricing homes or building lots for Leavenworth home owners. Some homeowners call us curious about the state of the market and others are serious about getting their house on the market. We provide a Comparative Market Analysis (CMA) free of charge to any Leavenworth area property owner considering …
Ira Finklestein Movie Trailer
Earlier this year, Leavenworth was the setting for the movie production of “Ira Finklestein’s Christmas.” A number of Leavenworth residents took part as extras, the Cascade High School band played in a Christmas parade, and Leavenworth the town was transformed into “Christmas Town.” The production company at Von Piglet Productions just released the trailer – let us know if you see anyone you know …
Shopping for Leavenworth Insurance: Tips from a Pro
The following is a guest post from Eric Kossian of Leavenworth Insurance Home insurance pricing is affected by a number of factors; I will try to discuss in order of importance, with those factors that affect the rate the most listed 1st. Credit Score: a good credit score will give you up to a 50% discount because it is the single biggest statistical determinate …
Zillow Brings Zestimates to Leavenworth
{EAV_BLOG_VER:1f532b9928c58084} Last week Zillow, the online real estate portal, announced that they had done some big changes to their database. We added Zestimates to more than 25 million new homes, bringing the number of homes on Zillow with data, Zestimates and Rent Zestimates to approximately 100 million. That’s more than three-quarters of all homes in the country. We improved the algorithm models that better incorporate …