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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 …
Shopping for Leavenworth Insurance: Tips from a Pro
The following is a guest post from Eric Kossian of Leavenworth Insurance Home insurance pricing is affected by a number of factors; I will try to discuss in order of importance, with those factors that affect the rate the most listed 1st. Credit Score: a good credit score will give you up to a 50% discount because it is the single biggest statistical determinate …
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 …
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 …
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 …
How Long is Your Driveway?
When shopping for a home in Leavenworth a lot of folks see a house they like but then mention that they were hoping to find a house a little further away from the road. Understandably, home buyers are hoping for peace and quiet and a little privacy. However, buying a house that is further from the road means having a longer driveway. This means …
Working Harder to Sell Your Leavenworth Home
I spoke with a homeowner the other day who was disappointed by the results that he got from the three agents who had previously listed his home. His big question to me was great – “What do you do that is pro-active when it comes to selling my home?” I started my answer telling him about the marketing we do on the internet. …