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Leavenworth Home Prices 1st Quarter 2011
How’s the Leavenworth real estate market doing? Is the market picking up? Don’t worry you’re not alone in asking those questions. I get asked those questions everywhere I go – at Safeway, at church, at the Wenatchee Wild hockey games. Local media outlets and other real estate bloggers tend to rely on Pacific Appraisal’s “Real Estate Snapshot” which they produce quarterly for the Leavenworth …
Windermere’s Leavenworth Team Joins NWMLS
Windermere Real Estate /NCW recently joined the Northwest Multiple Listing Service which is the main listing service for western Washington from Bellingham to Olympia. NWMLS For a number of years we have had clients ask us to “co-list” their house with a Windermere agent in the Seattle area to get increased exposure for their home. Honestly, the results were pretty underwhelming, but nonetheless we …
The Wiggle Room Myth
When it comes to negotiating, especially on something as big as the sale of a house, none of us wants to leave any money on the table. So I’m not surprised when a seller tells me they want to price their home a little higher than they know they should – to leave a little “wiggle room” when it comes to negotiating. Anyone with …
Windermere’s Leavenworth Team Still Dominant
In 2009 Windermere closed the doors of our Leavenworth branch and consolidated all our agents and office staff in Wenatchee. Our competitors have tried to tell their clients that we are out of business and it’s a question we get asked often when folks interview us to list their Leavenworth home. While our support staff is located in Wenatchee, we do maintain a conference …
Chiwawa River Pines Home Prices
The recent article in the Wenatchee World about the court of appeals decision concerning vacation rentals in Chiwawa River Pines has received 33 comments so far. It’s obvious that this remains a very contentious issue in the neighborhood. Among the comments, Monte Karnes had a request: Geordie,if you get a chance and you read this I would be very interested in your “professional opinion” …
My Metrics – Leavenworth Real Estate Edition
Despite the so called “death of print media” we still subscribe to a number of magazines in our household. I enjoy Fortune magazine and one of the regular columns they have is called “My Metrics”. Each issue, some analyst or economist shares a hidden secret about some number that they use to determine how the economy is doing or how a specific business is doing. …
Leavenworth Real Estate 2010 Year End Review
I feel like I did pretty darned good job with my predictions last year for the Leavenworth real estate market. Here’s what I said at the end of 2009. I would guess prices will continue to muddle along. Some neighborhoods will see price drops and others won’t. (See chart below.) Condo inventory will clear out. I would guess that foreclosure or auctions will be part …
Leavenworth Real Estate Update: Q4 2010
“How’s the Leavenworth real estate market doing these days?” That seems to be a question we get all the time. We’ll do our best to answer that question in the next few posts. There are two ways to measure the health of the market. Home prices is certainly one of the factors we look at. The chart below measures the average and median sales …
Leavenworth Home Sales Quarter 3 2010
In our most recent post we tackled current Leavenworth home prices. Today we are going to look at the number of homes that have sold in Leavenworth this quarter and so far this year in 2010. We’re still working out the bugs, so I apologize for the fuzzy chart. The good news is that you can get an interactive chart by clicking on the …
Leavenworth Home Prices, Quarter 3 2010
What are Leavenworth home prices doing? The easy answer is that they are dropping, but not nearly as dramatically as elsewhere in the country, or even Washington State. The chart below has 4 metrics measured from 2004-2010. The first two are the average home price and the median home price for the 3rd Quarter. The second pair are the Year to Date average and …