Stunning Puget Sound View

Great Beach Cabin Near Seattle

This beach cabin would make a great second home for a Seattle resident.  It is located in Olympia on the South Puget Sound.  Just an hour and a half drive from Seattle – a straight shot down I-5.  No waiting in ferry lines to reach your own vacation beach retreat.

I’ve looked all over Puget Sound and it is difficult to find this combination of a well-maintained and updated cabin, jaw-dropping view, and great sandy beach at this price ($400,000 at this time of writing).  The interior has 3 bedrooms, new carpet, a remodeled kitchen, living and dining rooms facing the view, a deck off the master bedroom, and a big laundry and mudroom by the front entry – great for cleaning up after the beach.  The house sits back from the road on a quiet spot.  You’ll hear noise from boats – none from cars.

A solid stair takes you down to the beach with its driftwood, fine sand, and shallow water.

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Olympia Beach Cabin

Ocean View House in Westport

Here’s a great find in Westport: a large bank owned home listed at an attractive price with ocean view and a short walk to the beach.  Westport and Grays Harbor County in general feature the closest, sandy ocean beaches to Seattle.  You can reach the ocean here in under a 3 hour drive.  Westport sports the best marina on the coast with whalewatching tours and ocean fishing charter boats.  The tallest lighthouse in Washington state stands at the south end of town.  Westport is the best spot for surfing on the Washington coast with over 300 days of head-high waves.

20 miles of beaches at Westport

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Affordable Vacation Home on the Washington Coast

The closest ocean beaches to Seattle are found in Grays Harbor county – 50 miles of wide sandy beaches and marvelous sunsets.  A drive of 2.5 to 3 hours that avoids ferry lines brings you to the coast. I recently toured a very attractive, large, and affordable beachfront home in the Seaview Estate community of Ocean City – just 5 miles north of Ocean Shores.  Its best features include an unobstructed view of the ocean, decks that nearly encircle the house, a luxurious great room combining kitchen/dining/living lined with view windows, a huge upstairs master bedroom with its own view deck, and big basement family room.  The beach is a short walk through the beach grass and dunes to Connor Creek, over a small pontoon bridge, and onto the sand.  Your kids will play all day in the surf, the sand, the creek, and the beach grass.  The house provides a mud room to rinse them off.  It’s a wonderful location for a family beach getaway.  Interest rates and prices make your dream vacation home affordable.

Luxurious kitchen with a view

At this time of writing, 31 Ocean Lane, Ocean City, WA (MLS #94504) is available for $350,000.  3 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms, 2,576 square feet, built in 2001 and well maintained.  See 80+ photo album.

Great Room with Wall of Windows

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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 the 2010 Winter Olympics!!) with an abundance of recreational activities…hiking, fishing, golfing, water sports, you name it.

This log home is currently a short term executive rental, rented out on a nightly or weekly basis, and is in a perfect location as it’s only 35 minutes to Harrison Hot Springs and 25 minutes to Cultus Lake, a popular camping destination. Think 26′ ceilings with ceiling-to-floor windows that take advantage of light, beautiful Hans Rhodes natural rock fire place, large recreation room in the daylight basement and a private master suite on the upper level…it’s literally the perfect Getaway!

With the exchange rates today at $1.08, with US dollars it’s like getting an 8% discount right off the top of the purchase price. The listed price is $969,000 and the home has 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, about 2600 sqft and is just shy of 2.5 acres, which may be able to be subdividable in the future. The furniture is negotiable, and for those who would like to keep it as a vacation rental, the seller will negotiate the websites for the lodge as well!

For more information, visit VancouverPowerSearch.com or contact Laura at 604.209.3674 or at laura@vancouverpowersearch.com.

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