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Rescued by Super Agent Toby Barnett
Sometimes in real estate, as in life, you get yourself in a pickle and need to lean on a friend to help you out. Today when we needed help, Toby Barnett, our Super Agent pal in Snohomish County, came to our rescue. Toby Barnett Our plight is a long and complicated story. We won’t bore you with all the details. It involves a lender …
Has the Leavenworth Real Estate Market Recovered?
We get clients and friends asking us all the time: Has the Leavenworth Real Estate Market Recovered? Since the market is fluid and dynamic it really depends on what time periods we are comparing. For this discussion, I broke the history of the Leavenworth real estate market into three time periods. The real estate boom. 2006-2007. I used the color green for this period …
Condo Sales in Leavenworth | Fall 2012
It’s been over a year since we did a report on condo sales in Leavenworth. As of today’s date, 2012 is a much stronger year for condo sales than 2011. Only 8 condominiums sold in Leavenworth through September of 2011, but 14 have closed so far in 2012. Condo sales in Leavenworth appear to be on par with 2010 when 15 condominiums had sold …
Leavenworth Has Two Record Months of Home Sales
We were pretty excited to share with you the news that a record number of Leavenworth homes closed in July. It turns out that August wasn’t too shabby either. Fourteen homes sold in August which is pretty amazing compared to almost any month but July of 2012. How do these numbers compare to recent records for home sales in Leavenworth and Lake Wenatchee? These …
Record July Home Sales in Leavenworth
We have been seeing reports about increasing real estate sales and even increasing prices for a few months now. The real estate market in Leavenworth has slowly but surely been improving for sellers. This month has been more than just an improvement – we have seen record July home sales in Leavenworth for 2012. Photo courtesy of Justin Liew on Flickr More homes have sold in Leavenworth …
Who Sells the Most Leavenworth Houses?
Since Windermere no longer has a staffed office in Leavenworth, people sometimes ask us if we are at a disadvantage to the other companies who are located in downtown Leavenworth. Allyson and I work out of a home office and Windermere has a conference room where we can meet with clients in the Mittenwalder Platz building near Dr. O’Brien’s dentistry office. It would be …
Leavenworth Home Prices For Spring 2012
The Leavenworth real estate market continues to show slow but steady signs of improvement in 2012. Leavenworth home prices for spring 2012 did increase from last year’s horrible numbers and are similar to those in 2009 and 2010. 2nd Quarter Home Sales Leavenworth Home Prices For Spring 2012 Average Sales Price: $381,000 Median Sales Price: $344,000 Number of Homes Sold: 19 * Just 2 …
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Valuable Lessons
Most folks know that prior to my career as a real estate agent that I worked as a park ranger for the National Park Service. Some folks know that I used to race bicycles growing up and coached a youth cycling team for a while as well. But few of my clients know the strong influence that the Boy Scouts had on me growing up. …
What’s it like living in Leavenworth Washington?
People ask all the time what it’s like living in Leavenworth Washington. One of the real pleasures about small town living is how safe it is with very little crime and a great sense of community. It’s really pretty common for people to leave their doors unlocked here in Leavenworth. More than once when meeting with a homeowner to put their house on the …