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Seattle Waterfront Real Estate Tour: 3756 W Commodore Way, Seattle WA 98199
Contemporary Architecture on Magnolia’s Ship Canal Waterfront
Most of Seattle’s Puget Sound waterfront was built up decades ago, as the most popular shorelines were beginning development in the early 1900s, and virtually all buildable waterfront has long been developed. While some homes have been torn [...]

Seattle Waterfront Real Estate Tour: 5422 39th Ave W, Seattle WA 98199
Deep Canal views from Magnolia Waterfront Home

I was back on the ship canal today, touring a couple of wonderful pieces of waterfront real estate in Magnolia. The first was a classic home for this area, with a 1950s flat roof design, street-side entry [...]

Total April home sales in Seattle hit nearly the same levels as March, continuing strong year-over-year sales gains. While prices remain flat, it seems that we’ve gotten past the price depreciation of 2008 and 2009.
Seattle Home Sales, April 2010
Single family detached homes and townhomesTotal home sales down 2% vs last month, but up 30% [...]

During my visit to Washington’s new oceanfront neighborhood, Seabrook, I had a chance to tour the under-construction beach house. This home was selected by Coastal Living Magazine as their Ultimate Beach House for 2010 and is slated to be finished by June.

While many builders are in the process of cutting back on amenities and [...]

I took the family out for a business/pleasure trip to the ocean this week to visit Washington’s oceanfront neighborhood Seabrook, a newer master-planned community just South of Pacific Beach, WA. A 2.5 hour drive from Seattle, the trip through Grays Harbor County takes you about 20 miles North of Ocean Shores to Seabrook’s development on [...]

If you’ve thought about buying waterfront property in King County and developing the land, you may think about buying an existing structure after reading further. While building a new home, dock/pier, or any other structure on the waterfront can create a beautiful property, there are a variety of regulatory agencies that must be traversed before [...]

Thanks to King County Councilmember Larry Phillips for the heads up on a free workshop that the conservation district is putting on for waterfront homeowners this summer. This is a great starting point if you are a waterfront homeowner who wants to maintain the integrity of your property and the marine habitat at the same [...]

The King County Department of Development and Environmental Services (DDES) provides guidelines for the use of waterfront bulkheads to control shoreline erosion on waterfront properties. The Bulletin on shoreline erosion control is a good starting point for waterfront home owners on Lake Washington and Puget Sound to find out if there is a need for [...]

Seattle Waterfront Home Tour: Magnolia Canal Waterfront Estate3736 W Commodore Way, Seattle WA 98199
I had a chance to tour four waterfront homes for clients yesterday, and this one took me by surprise. While its price was less than half of some of the other homes I visited, this home was by far my favorite. It [...]

Strong real estate sales are dependent on a strong economy. Waterfront home sales, in particular, rely upon a strong supply of high-income executive and senior management-level employment to sustain sales.
It’s looking like Seattle’s current economy is fairly strong, relative to the overall stagnant economy in the U.S. Our metropolitan area had the top-ranked economy out [...]