Lake Union Homes

Waterfront home sales in Seattle are typically slow in the winter, and January 2010 was no exception. Only a handful of homes sold last month on the water, but there were some significant properties that moved.
Many Seattle residents may not know Three Tree Point, but it’s a small peninsula just South of Seattle in Burien. [...]

I had a chance to sit down with the folks at Walk Score last week, and if you haven’t heard of Walk Score yet, you probably will soon. The Seattle-based company has developed a system for scoring the walkability of cities and neighborhoods around the country. The basic concept is that if you have good [...]

It’s July and the summer sun has finally come to Seattle. You’re taking some time off from work, ready to shop for a new home, and what better place is there to buy than on the waterfront? Everyone’s out boating, wakeboarding, fishing, or just diving off the end of the dock.
Seattle’s Lake Washington waterfront [...]

Sales of houseboats and floating homes in Seattle were surprisingly brisk in 2009, after a dismal year of sales in 2008. While the first half of the year was slow, bank-owned floating homes and bargain prices on houseboats  on Lake Union drove sales back up to 2006 levels by the end of the year, while [...]

In my last post, I took a look at the overall decline in the median prices for waterfront home sales from 2007 through 2009. While the numbers look bleak, there are a few bright spots to consider.

Median home prices are a good indicator of the direction of a market in general, but they often overstate [...]