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Wanna be in the movies?
How about your barn? Does it want to be famous? We have a film crew in Leavenworth today November 10th and 11th scouting for an area to film an upcoming movie that takes place in Switzerland on a goat farm. Here are their particulars: 1) Goat Farm in Switzerland in Alps (animals can/will be brought in – at earlier point in …
Leavenworth Real Estate Update | Sold Homes October 20...
Eleven homes sold in the Leavenworth area in October. No condos sold this month. 18135 River Road, Leavenworth List Price: $1,297,000 | Sold Price: $980,000 Days on Market: 428 9 Bedrooms | 5 Baths | 2.02 Acres | 4690 sqft Amazing log home on River Road. Suprisingly NOT on the river. 210 Division Street, Leavenworth List Price: $725,000 | Sold Price: $655,000 Days on Market: 200 3 …
Leavenworth Real Estate Update – 3rd Quarter of ...
Leavenworth home prices certainly have backed off from the great increases the area saw in 2007, but we have been lucky as of late to avoid the price drops that Seattle and King County have seen and that Wall Street has seen in the past two weeks. The chart above shows what looks like a huge price drop – over $100,000 compared to the …
Opposed to Bailout
Guest Post by Darel Ansley of Peoples Bank in Wenatchee I have had a lot of high level finance discussions in the last few weeks with my colleagues and clients throughout the Leavenworth and Wenatchee area. The one positive thing I can state is that for the first time in many years, I am finding agreement between liberals and conservatives: everyone seems to be …
Leavenworth and Lake Wenatchee – Be Bear Aware
Lake Wenatchee and Leavenworth residents need to be extra careful about black bears this fall according to a recent article in the Wenatchee World. More bears are being seen in the local area this year and it appears it is due to a lack of huckleberries in the mountains. Each summer in the Cascades, bears go through a period of hyperphagia starting in August …
Leavenworth Summer Real Estate Update
Where has the summer gone? Allyson and I have been really busy this summer with all sorts of exciting projects. I’ll try to highlight some of them here, but I’ve also added a widget on the sidebar for anyone who wants a play by play of what I’m up to. If you have a Twitter account, you can follow me here. The latest project …
Leavenworth Homes: $200,000 to $300,000
Question: What is the number of single family homes on the Leavenworth market between $200,000 and $300,000. Answer: 19 A move up in price range brings a dramatic increase in the number of available listings. From my previous post, the number of listings under $200,000 was 4. There are now 5 active listings since Geordie just listed a Ski Cabin for $199,900. …
Lake Wenatchee Leased Property Owners Take Note
Owners of cabins at Lake Wenatchee that sit on U.S. Forest Service leased land might want to pay attention to current action that the National Park Service is considering at Lake Roosevelt. The NPS is studying whether or not to terminate leases on 26 vacation cabins on government land at the lake. As many folks have heard, the USFS is expected to raise the …
Leavenworth 1031 Tips
Guest Author Michelle Rojas, Esq. VP & Northern Region Manager of LandAmerica 1031 Exchange Services Most investors understand the tax benefit of structuring a 1031 exchange, whereby an investor trades one property for another without having to pay capital gains taxes. In an ordinary sale transaction, the investor is taxed on any gain realized by the sale of the property. But in an exchange, …
Leavenworth Home Sales Question
Mark wrote in with a question about Homes Sales Data Hey, Geordie – Here’s a question I’ve been wondering for a while. This might also be something that many other of your customers wonder about, so might be a good blog article topic, unless this is a big can of worms (or just a plain silly question). Here’s the question: Why is home sales …