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Easy to Drive Your Electric Car to Leavenworth
Updated June 2022 In 2011, The Department of Commerce and the Washington State Department of Transportation announced plans to make the Stevens Pass Greenway the first electric vehicle-friendly National Scenic Byway route including new Leavenworth car charging stations. With Federal Recovery Act funding through the State Energy Program, and promised that the state would install two to three electric vehicle (EV) fast charging stations …
Is the Leavenworth real estate market slowing down in ...
Buyers, sellers, real estate brokers, and appraisers all find themselves asking the same question. Is the real estate market in Leavenworth slowing down? We read reports in the Seattle papers about their market cooling off and wonder if the same thing is happening here. Are we headed to a more balanced market with more options for buyers or a systemic crash like we experienced …
Leavenworth Holiday Gift Guide
Whether you are gearing up for Black Friday or holding out for Small Business Saturday, Leavenworth Washington is a great spot for a shopping adventure . The town is already decked out in Christmas lights and with snowflakes in the air, it’s hard not to get in the holiday spirit. Think Leavenworth is just full of shops selling German themed coffee mugs or Bavarian tchotchkes? …
Leavenworth Real Estate Update Spring 2017
Most quarters we focus on the sales activity in our Leavenworth real estate update. We look at info about the number of sales, and the median and average home price to give us an approximation of the health of the real estate market. Large numbers of home sales and increasing prices tell us that demand is high. This quarter we’ll mix it up a …
2017 Leavenworth Condo Shortage
In the past year or two, the demand for Leavenworth real estate has skyrocketed and the supply has dwindled. This is especially true in the Leavenworth condominium market leaving us with a Leavenworth condo shortage for 2017. Why do we call it a Leavenworth condo shortage? In the past 12 months a total of 30 condominiums have sold in the Leavenworth zipcode. The median …
2016 Leavenworth Home Prices
2016 Leavenworth home prices remained strong compared to 2015 with continued strong buyer demand and overall low inventory. The median home price in Leavenworth for 2016 was $345,000 which is only trivially lower than 2015 and the average home price is up slightly to $397,000. While home buyers might feel that 2016 Leavenworth home prices were soaring, they actually remained stable. The average home …
Ira Finklestein Movie Trailer
Earlier this year, Leavenworth was the setting for the movie production of “Ira Finklestein’s Christmas.” A number of Leavenworth residents took part as extras, the Cascade High School band played in a Christmas parade, and Leavenworth the town was transformed into “Christmas Town.” The production company at Von Piglet Productions just released the trailer – let us know if you see anyone you know …
Love Letter to a Chelan County Snow Plow Driver
Garbage Pickup Thursdays in our neighborhood are trash day. Every week we put out the can by the street and every other week we put out the blue recycling container too. Last week was one of those nasty wintry days where every homeowner is struggling with the snowblower to keep up with the new snow and the county has its plows running a full …
Ira Finklestein’s Christmas Vacation – A N...
Have you heard that Leavenworth is going to be in the movies again? Ira Finkelstein’s Christmas Vacation is the story “of a Jewish kid who’ll stop at nothing to celebrate Christmas.” Photo by Peachland Joe via Flickr Written and produced by Von Piglet Productions, it was originally to be set in a Christmas town in Vermont. However, after a couple of location scouting trips …
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 …