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Overpriced Leavenworth Homes For Sale
Nothing is more frustrating to Leavenworth home buyers and real estate agents than a new listing that comes on the market in the spring at a price high above market value. I understand the motivation of the seller to get as much out of their property as possible, but their real estate agent should know better. It is not always done on purpose, but sometimes …
Mitt Romney Doesn’t Buy His Home Insurance at Wa...
The following is a Guest Post by Eric Kossian of Leavenworth Insurance Eric Kossian, Leavenworth Insurance When an affluent person buys homeowner’s insurance their lifestyle demands that they have home insurance that matches their lifestyle. For starters, an affluent client has a larger more expensive home ($400K market value+) that should be insured with no cap on replacement cost instead of limited “extended replacement” on 95% …
Leavenworth Home Prices for 2011
Home sales in Leavenworth and Lake Wenatchee continued to chug along in the 4th quarter of 2011 and I don’t think anyone was particularly surprised with the results. All in all, 2011 looked a lot like 2010. The median home price in Leavenworth fell from $310,000 to $307,000. This is down 12% from a peak of $349,000 in 2008 Average home prices in Leavenworth …
Leavenworth Foreclosure Report 2011
Foreclosures, short sales, bank owned properties (REOs) and distressed sellers continued to be an important part of the national real estate landscape in 2011. However, despite all the press, these distressed sales had very little effect on the Leavenworth real estate market. Photo courtesy of Jeff Turner aka @respres How little? Of the 98 single family homes and condominiums that sold in 2011 in …
Will Your Leavenworth Home Insurance Go Down?
State Agency Grants Some In Leavenworth New Lower Fire Insurance Rating (The following is a guest post by Eric Kossian of Leavenworth Insurance) Some Leavenworth area residents will benefit from Fire Chief Kelly O’Brien’s successful effort to have the rating agency for fire protection classifications reevaluate Fire District #3. Chief O’Brien was able to prove that those county residents that reside …
Leavenworth Home Prices | 3rd Quarter 2011
What a difference a year or even a few months can make! We’re certainly not out of the woods, but there is a lot of good news to report after the 3rd quarter of 2011. Last year, we saw a summer driven by sales of distressed homes (short sales and foreclosures ) which really depressed the average and median prices. This year, only 1 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Previewing Leavenworth Houses: The Life of a Leavenwor...
I thought it would be fun to start a new series of posts I’m tentatively calling The Life of a Leavenworth Real Estate Agent. I realize that most folks don’t see a lot of the behind the scenes work that we do throughout the week, so here’s a peek. Previewing Houses We don’t make it every week, but Allyson and I try to go …