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Unlisted Homes in the Leavenworth Luxury Market
Searching for a home in any market can sometimes be a frustrating experience. In the Leavenworth real estate market it is even tougher because there are so few homes for sale. I have seen inventory as high as 150 homes, but this includes Leavenworth to Lake Wenatchee and Stevens Pass and price ranges from $150,000 to $3,000,000. Buyers looking for a cabin under $300,000 …
Ski Report – Stevens Pass, Lake Wenatchee, Leave...
Winter is here, Christmas is around the corner, and everyone wants to know… Is it ski season yet in Leavenworth? It depends on who you ask. Here is the round up of local ski areas from West to East. Stevens Pass Ski Area Stevens Pass opened the lifts on Thursday December 18th for the 2008-9 season. You can get current conditions and webcams at …
Leavenworth Real Estate Update – 3rd Quarter of ...
Leavenworth home prices certainly have backed off from the great increases the area saw in 2007, but we have been lucky as of late to avoid the price drops that Seattle and King County have seen and that Wall Street has seen in the past two weeks. The chart above shows what looks like a huge price drop – over $100,000 compared to the …
Leavenworth and Lake Wenatchee – Be Bear Aware
Lake Wenatchee and Leavenworth residents need to be extra careful about black bears this fall according to a recent article in the Wenatchee World. More bears are being seen in the local area this year and it appears it is due to a lack of huckleberries in the mountains. Each summer in the Cascades, bears go through a period of hyperphagia starting in August …
Lake Wenatchee Leased Property Owners Take Note
Owners of cabins at Lake Wenatchee that sit on U.S. Forest Service leased land might want to pay attention to current action that the National Park Service is considering at Lake Roosevelt. The NPS is studying whether or not to terminate leases on 26 vacation cabins on government land at the lake. As many folks have heard, the USFS is expected to raise the …
Leavenworth Real Estate Update – Spring 2008
Leavenworth home sales have finally begun to become affected by the economic realities that surround us. Readers of this blog have no doubt seen the dollar tanking, oil prices surging and the stock market diving – even a little more so as the second quarter of 2008 came to a halt. While the beginning of the year was kind to Leavenworth home sales, …
Leavenworth Blog Update
2021 update: not surprisingly most of the other blogs have long disappeared. Since the links don’t go anywhere, I have removed them, but I have kept the rest of this article intact. A Leavenworth real estate blog? Three and a half years ago, I think people thought I was a little nuts to start blogging about Leavenworth and the local real estate market. As …
Leavenworth Home Inspections – Common Conditions
Part I By John Griffith, Cascade Site Services, Cashmere WA The conditions described below are not in any particular order as far as significance or commonality. Leavenworth does have a large number of older homes, built in the early 1900’s, and many of these conditions are typical of older construction. Also, with the climate of Leavenworth being cooler, with higher precipitation than …
Leavenworth Real Estate Stats for Q1 2008
Leavenworth real estate prices for both houses and condos have continued their upward trend in the first quarter of 2008. This includes the area from Peshastin to Stevens Pass including Lake Wenatchee, Fish Lake and Plain. In the past, I have focused on comparing year to year trends, but this quarter I decided to compare 2008 to the past few years. As you …
Buyer for Lake Wenatchee Cabin
Do you own a cabin on Lake Wenatchee near Leavenworth? It doesn’t matter if your home is on North Shore or Cedar Brae, demand for lakefront homes on Lake Wenatchee (or Fish Lake) remains at an all time high. There is only one home for sale on Lake Wenatchee today. Even if you don’t want to list your home, but may be interested in …