Lake Washington Homes

 
Sales of luxury real estate in Seattle have been strong all summer long, and continue to outpace 2009’s sales of luxury homes in a big way. July had 31 sales of homes over $1 million and 5 home sales over $2 million. This is in comparison to last July’s sales of 23 and 2 homes, [...]

Moody’s and Fiserv (Case-Shiller Indices) recently studied the most likely housing markets to lead the real estate recovery in the U.S. Washington state came out number 1, with particular attention to the Puget Sound region. Seattle was forecast to have a bullish 25.5% increase in prices over the next 4 years.

The group estimates that housing [...]

Waterfront real estate sales this summer on the Eastside have been far stronger than in 2009. June sales were particularly outstanding, with July showing a slight downturn which wasn’t unexpected after the early summer burst, matching the rest of the market in Greate Seattle.

Thirteen significant Eastside waterfront home sales on Lake Washington and Lake [...]

 
Waterfront real estate sales in Seattle maintained an even keel in July, as the general real estate market continued to push along through a slow economy. July waterfront home sales in Seattle matched the eight homes sold in June, with two sales being high-end floating homes and the remainder of the sales being traditional single [...]

While the real estate market took a dip after the home buyer tax credits expired a couple of months ago, it appears that the summer boost is coming back.
After May’s disappointing numbers, we saw an increase of 24% in new home sales for June, according to the U.S. Commerce department. Sales of new homes rose [...]

 
There has been much (uninformed) debate on the web about the possible existence of a tax on real estate sales within the new health care bill passed by Congress and the President this year. It’s been called a “sales tax”, “transfer tax”, “income tax”, and some have even said it doesn’t exist at all.

Let’s [...]

While Seattle’s waterfront real estate market stayed healthy but flat in June, sales of waterfront homes on the Eastside continued to make a big splash.

There were 13 homes sold on Lake Washington and Lake Sammamish last month, including a dozen sales over $1 million and 5 sales over $3 million. That more than doubles [...]

The waterfront real estate market in Seattle continued to top 2009’s sales numbers with 6 waterfront home sales in June and 5 of those being traditional houses. While the total sales are down slightly from the 8 sales in May, we’re still significantly higher every month this year than we were in 2009.
In May of [...]

Car Enthusiast’s Dream Home on Lake Washington Waterfront – Bryn Mawr, Seattle
There are a thousands of homes on the shores of Seattle’s lakes and Puget Sound. Finding the right house for a waterfront home buyer always entails researching their need for boat moorage, privacy of location, and waterfront footage desired. Sometimes, though, a rare characteristic [...]

While foreclosures have certainly increased in the greater Seattle real estate market over the past couple of years, REO or bank-owned homes have yet to make up a significant number of homes on the market.
Seattle ForeclosuresSeattle currently has 210 bank-owned homes on the NWMLS for sale. This is out of 4277 total active listings, or [...]