Central District
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20th Century Architecture across from Moore Theater Got the sunshine bug? Pulled out your shorts and sneaks yet? Here’s something you might enjoy on a Thursday, Friday or Saturday (Apr-Dec). For inquiring minds: when you notice fern motifs on the interior of Macy’s downtown or stone... (more...)
Central District, Community, Downtown, Eastside, Lynnwood, North End »
New Light Rail The Central Link Light Rail began operating from the Seattle Downtown to the Seatac Airport and back last year, in 2009. On July 17, 2009 there was a preview ride, with a video! Central Link uses 35 train cars and is 15.6 miles in length. The University Link span of the project began... (more...)
Ballard, Buying Seattle Real Estate, Capitol Hill, Community, First Time Homebuyers, Fremont, Green Lake, Leschi, Montlake, Mt. Baker, Phinney Ridge, Queen Anne, Ravenna, Residential Architecture, U-District, Wallingford, Wedgwood, West Seattle »
Classic Craftsman house in Mount Baker Seattle is known for an early 20th-century American architecture called Craftsman. People who visit our city notice the abundance of Craftsman houses & bungalows and note that these aren’t quite so common (or exist at all!) in their own home towns. ... (more...)
Alaska Junction, Alki, Ballard, Belltown, Capitol Hill, Eastlake, FRONT PAGE FEED, Fauntleroy, Find Your Buyer, First Hill, First Time Homebuyers, Fremont, Green Lake, Greenwood, International District, Leschi, Madison Park, Montlake, Mt. Baker, Phinney Ridge, Ravenna, Seward Park, South Lake Union, U-District, Wallingford, Wedgwood, Westlake »
Here’s a common misnomer, but one that we all use often and for different reasons: “The Seattle Market.” But really, to mix up all the neighborhood data into this one market snapshot is like mixing all the primary colors till they’re brown, and then trying to paint a rainbow... (more...)
Capitol Hill, Leschi, Madison Park, Market Watch, Montlake »
New evidence of a real estate market turnaround? The big news in the Madison Park real estate market last month was the report by the Northwest Multiple Listing Service (MLS) that the median price of Seattle homes sold in January was actually higher than in the same month a year earlier. For the city... (more...)
Capitol Hill, FRONT PAGE FEED, Featured, Madison Park, Montlake, Seward Park »
The Japanese Garden in the Arboretum is about to end its winter hiatus, reopening on Sunday, February 14, for its 50th Anniversary season. Rated by a garden journal as one of the ten favorite Japanese gardens in the country, Seattle’s Japanese Garden was inaugurated in July 1960, after only four... (more...)
Central District, Community, Downtown, Eastside, FRONT PAGE FEED, First Time Homebuyers, Investors, Kent, North End, North Seattle, Queen Anne, Relocation, Renton, Seatac, Tukwila, West Seattle »
I was just asked this week how is the Real Estate Market in King County since I mentioned earlier about Snohomish County. Well here is information which was requested about King County. Northwest Multiple Listing Service (MLS) reported as following statistics for Dec 2009. Jan 2010 stats will be published... (more...)
Central District, Community, Downtown, Eastside, FRONT PAGE FEED, First Time Homebuyers, Investors, Mercer Island, North End, North Seattle, Queen Anne, Snohomish, South End, West Seattle »
I’m pretty sure if the power company offered you a month off from paying your bill, you’d say yes. It might not happen tomorrow, but according to an article I just read in a Sierra Club magazine, in a few decades looks like large power bills will be a thing of the past. As we all know, it’s... (more...)
Central District, Community, FRONT PAGE FEED, Seward Park »
Life in the Rainier Valley A lot of Seattlites have never been to the Rainier Valley and they are missing a lot. Nestled below Beacon Hill is one of the most intreging areas of urban improvement and a spectacular life. Driving down the main thoroughfare from downtown Seattle, Martin Luther King Way... (more...)
Central District, Commercial Property, Community, Downtown, Eastside, FRONT PAGE FEED, Investors, Market Watch, Mercer Island, North End, North Seattle, Relocation, Snohomish, South End, Vlogs, West Seattle »
I was up in the Vancouver BC area last week and my friend Laura Howren took me with her to see a property she just listed in Chilliwack. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the area, it’s a city in the Fraser Valley region in BC about an hour and a half away from Vancouver (home to... (more...)
