Did you know that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation currently has offices in 5 parts of the world?  Headquarters:  Seattle, WA;  East Coast Office: Washington, D.C.;  Avahan Initiative: Delhi, India;  China Office:  Beijing, China;  Europe Office:  London, United Kingdom.  This is a brief... (more...)

tudor architecture in Seattle Who can point out tudors when driving through Capitol Hill and other parts of town – Maple Leaf, Ravenna, Montlake, West Seattle, Wedgwood, Matthews Beach, Seward Park.  Gosh come to think of it, most neighborhoods have some form of tudor architecture!  I described... (more...)

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...)

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...)

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...)

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...)

WHAT IS A BUYER’S AGENT AND WHY DO I NEED ONE?   Q:  How do Buyers’ Agents Get Paid?   A:  Their services are free to the Buyer.   Q:  How does that work?   A:  When the Seller’s Agent signs a listing agreement with the Seller, they negotiate a commission.  They then offer... (more...)

There are a lot of great places to eat in Queen Anne, one of the favorite places for locals is definitely Julia’s.  These are the people that don’t bother to review it on Yelp because they already know where they are going when they want a meal out at a comfortable local place.  It’s... (more...)

The City’s Favorite Neighborhood and the Reasons Why You might say that any sentence that starts out with “everyone” has to be an exageration.  And I suppose it’s true that if you were to ask 20 Seattleites what their favortie neighborhood is, they would not all immediately blurt... (more...)

These days there is an interesting niche among available properties, and that is Bank Owned properties.  A client of mine that previously purchased a condo for his kids asked me to be on the lookout for a good deal as he needs a bigger home.  There are a lot of well-priced homes on the market right... (more...)