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Leavenworth Real Estate | Sold Homes October 2010

  In October, one condo and seven homes sold in the Leavenworth  area.   120 River Street, Leavenworth List price: $299,000.  Sold price: $270,000. Days on Market: 53 3 bedrooms | 3 bath | 1456 sqft | .22 acres Built in 2001, this home is located on a hidden street and backs to open space with mountain and river views.           118 Cherry Street, …

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Leavenworth Hosts Banff Mountain Film Festival

The Banff Mountain Film Festival is taking this year’s films on the road as they do each year and this year we are excited to have them come to Leavenworth. We’re so excited that we told the Leavenworth Winter Sports Club who is hosting the films that we would love to be the title sponsor. So for the inaugural showings here in Leavenworth, we …

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Leavenworth First Snow of 2010-2011

The first snow of the winter of 2010 – 2011 hit Leavenworth this afternoon. We were told to expect it at higher elevations, but we actually got snow downtown. Webcam Image from Leavenworth.org 11/9/10 This is a good reminder to be prepared for winter driving for the next few months. Keep chains, a shovel, and a tow rope in your car. You never know …

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Leavenworth Land Sales 2010

 In 2009 Leavenworth land sales were pretty dismal, but this year’s first 3 quarters have shown a decent rebound in the number of sold parcels, if not the price. In the first three quarters of 2010, 40 parcels of land have sold in the Leavenworth and Lake Wenatchee area–(this is both acreage and lots) compared to only 19 last year This is on par …

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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 …

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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 …

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Leavenworth Real Estate Auctions

Foreclosures and short sales have been the number one topic of real estate in the past 6 months. We haven’t been immune in Leavenworth, but we certainly have seen much less distressed sales here than in other parts of the country. Many of you are already subscribing to our Leavenworth Foreclosure and Short Sale List so you received an email about this news already. (It’s …

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Ponderosa Estates Allows Vacation Rentals

Originally posted October 19, 2010 Over the last few years there has been much debate about whether or not allowing vacation rentals makes for a healthy community or if banning them might have a negative effect on home prices in a certain neighborhood. Chiwawa River Pines, after much debate and legal wrangling, decided earlier that vacation rentals are not to be allowed in their …

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Stevens Pass Tenants 4 Turns Seasonal Housing

Have an extra room in your home or don’t plan to use your vacation home this winter?  Stevens Pass Ski Resort is once again doing their Tenants 4 Turns program allowing you to get some ski tickets or seasons pass in exchange for affordable rent. “Two years ago Stevens Pass introduced the Tenants 4 Turns housing program to great success and is making it …

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We’re on Facebook – Come Join Us

Most of our regular readers already know that Icicle Creek Homes has a Facebook page, but now you ALL know. What happens on Facebook that doesn’t happen here on the blog you ask? First of all, our Facebook fans and friends get the first notice on anything new. It’s our way of saying thanks. If we have a new listing – we’ll put a …

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