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Leavenworth Home Prices Spring 2010

Reporting about Leavenworth home prices usually starts with a great image of a half filled cup.  It’s rarely a simple story and there is both good news and bad depending on whether you are buying or selling a home. Let’s start with a chart comparing Q2 of 2010 to previous years. Leavenworth Real Estate 2010 So what does this tell us? The number of sales …

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Leavenworth Neighborhoods: Buyer’s or SellerR...

With a record number of homes for sale in Leavenworth, we generally are telling folks it’s not the best time to put your house on the market.  The corollary of that, of course, is that it is a great time to be a buyer. But even our small market in Leavenworth is made of a number of different sub-markets and neighborhoods and while we …

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Why doesn’t my Leavenworth home get more showing...

If you are asking this question about a current home in Leavenworth, think about the following dilemmas. Overpriced. With over 160 Leavenworth homes for sale  homes that are not aggressively priced aren’t likely to get shown. Expensive homes. Let’s face it. Very few homes sell above $700,000. Expect fewer showings because less qualified buyers exist. Tough showing instructions. 24 hr notice? Listing Agent must be …

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Anonymous wants to buy a house in Leavenworth

A while back we added a couple of features to this website. The first was a list of foreclosures in the Leavenworth area.  These can be tricky to search for and we know that sites like Zillow or Realty Trac don’t always have the most comprehensive info. Unfortunately, we can’t just list all the foreclosures and short sales because some might consider that “Advertising” …

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What’s NEW on the Leavenworth real estate market...

It’s spring in Leavenworth and the birds are making nests, the glacier lillies and trillium are starting to bloom and people have put away their skis and dusted off their bicycles. Real Estate yard signs are starting to pop up around the neighborhood too.  There certainly are more listings coming on the market every day. But wait… haven’t I seen some of these listings …

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Leavenworth Real Estate : 1st Quarter 2010

  The Leavenworth real estate market seems to be improving in my eyes, but you might not be able to tell by looking at the median sales price. Leavenworth Home Prices 2010   Of the 15 single family homes that sold in the first three months of 2010, 13 sold for less than $325,000. The other two were a house on Lake Wenatchee that …

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Writing Offers in the Leavenworth Real Estate Market

Mostly when we look at sales statistics in the real estate world, we are looking at a few numbers. Closed sales and pending sales are the most important. But before a home goes “pending” it needs to be shown to prospective buyers and it needs to have written offers presented. The numbers of showings that a certain property receives and the number of offers …

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Leavenworth Real Estate Update: Q4 2009

How best to summarize the 2009 Leavenworth real estate market? I often tell folks that our market is kind of “muddling” along. Home prices are stagnant or maybe even down a little, but not much in comparison to the Seattle area  or other parts of the country.   In addition to my usual quarterly graph, I’ve included a year end graph.     Year Over …

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Best of 2009

If there were rules to this new media game, perhaps written by the folks at FakeAPStylebook, I’m sure a Best of 2009 list is supposed to have been published prior to the singing of Auld Lang Syne. Photo by FoxyPar4 Unfortunately, I never got around to it. But here it is, better late than never. Discounts on Leavenworth Homes for Sale Record Number of …

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Leavenworth Property Rights Fundraiser

The Following is a Guest Post Allow me to introduce myself and steal a moment of your time. My name is Tabatha Hargis, I own a property over in the Lake Wenatchee area which we spend time at regularly with family and friends. We come into the Leavenworth Village often and love all the wonderful shops and eateries. In addition to enjoying our cabins …

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