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Leavenworth Home Prices Spring 2010
Reporting about Leavenworth home prices usually starts with a great image of a half filled cup. It’s rarely a simple story and there is both good news and bad depending on whether you are buying or selling a home. Let’s start with a chart comparing Q2 of 2010 to previous years. Leavenworth Real Estate 2010 So what does this tell us? The number of sales …
Leavenworth Neighborhoods: Buyer’s or SellerR...
With a record number of homes for sale in Leavenworth, we generally are telling folks it’s not the best time to put your house on the market. The corollary of that, of course, is that it is a great time to be a buyer. But even our small market in Leavenworth is made of a number of different sub-markets and neighborhoods and while we …
Buying FHA after a Short Sale
This just came in my email from Darel Ansley at Peoples Bank in Wenatchee: Maybe everyone else already knows this, but I just learned this week, that a person can actually sell their home through a short-sale and immediately buy a new home with FHA financing !! I was shocked. Here are the general limitations: 1) The client must stay current on their payments …
Leavenworth Supply of Homes Continues to Grow
A few times last year I wrote about the record number of homes for sale in Leavenworth and Lake Wenatchee. The first quarter did see an increase in the number of sales in Leavenworth, but I am worried that too many home sellers think that the market has regained its past glory. Unfortunately, it looks to me like we will continue to break new records …
Anonymous wants to buy a house in Leavenworth
A while back we added a couple of features to this website. The first was a list of foreclosures in the Leavenworth area. These can be tricky to search for and we know that sites like Zillow or Realty Trac don’t always have the most comprehensive info. Unfortunately, we can’t just list all the foreclosures and short sales because some might consider that “Advertising” …
What’s NEW on the Leavenworth real estate market...
It’s spring in Leavenworth and the birds are making nests, the glacier lillies and trillium are starting to bloom and people have put away their skis and dusted off their bicycles. Real Estate yard signs are starting to pop up around the neighborhood too. There certainly are more listings coming on the market every day. But wait… haven’t I seen some of these listings …
Leavenworth Real Estate : 1st Quarter 2010
The Leavenworth real estate market seems to be improving in my eyes, but you might not be able to tell by looking at the median sales price. Leavenworth Home Prices 2010 Of the 15 single family homes that sold in the first three months of 2010, 13 sold for less than $325,000. The other two were a house on Lake Wenatchee that …
Leavenworth Flood Insurance
I received two helpful emails in my inbox today about Leavenworth flood insurance. Darel Ansley at People’s Bank in Wenatchee writes: If you are involved in any purchases requiring flood insurance, there are currently no policies being issued, and these transactions cannot close without flood insurance. As you may have heard, the National Flood Insurance Program’s authorization from Congress expired March 28, which means …
Our Graph : Your Headlines
I thought I would try something a little different this quarter. I’ve posted the chart showing the trend in prices and I’ll leave it up for a few days for folks to add their own headlines or commentary about what they think is going on. I’ll post my thoughts later in the week. The second chart shows the volume – …
Writing Offers in the Leavenworth Real Estate Market
Mostly when we look at sales statistics in the real estate world, we are looking at a few numbers. Closed sales and pending sales are the most important. But before a home goes “pending” it needs to be shown to prospective buyers and it needs to have written offers presented. The numbers of showings that a certain property receives and the number of offers …