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Washington State Real Estate Wrap Up
As a real estate market that is influenced by vacation homes and second homes more than the local economy, real estate sales here in Leavenworth are impacted by the health of other Washington state real estate markets. If a home buyer has significant equity in their primary residence at Lake Sammamish or Mercer Island they are more likely to feel confident about buying a …
2012 Leavenworth Home Prices
It’s time for our year end review of 2012 Leavenworth home prices. Overall, 2012 saw continued improvement for the Leavenworth real estate market. We saw a huge uptick in volume of sold homes, both in the number sold and the total dollar value of those homes. As you can see from this chart, 2012 was a big improvement from 2009-2011. We are still seeing …
Icicle Creek Real Estate on Facebook
Are you a fan of Icicle Creek Real Estate on Facebook? If you are, thanks so much. We are so excited that almost 400 of you have joined us on Facebook where we share photos and interesting tidbits about Leavenworth and real estate. 400 fans is an amazing amount of support. That’s more fans than all of our competitors in Leavenworth have put together! …
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 …
Secret Tactics to Sell a House
Every seller we talk to in the Leavenworth market wants a real estate agent who will be aggressive about selling their home or property. That makes sense to us. Year in and year out we have clients come to us and ask us to list their home because they have tried other agents in the past and been disappointed with the results. It’s always exciting to …