North Sound Property News

Spring is here, and for the last several weeks, my husband and I have been working on re-landscaping our backyard.  In fact, we have been working on this since we moved into our house.  One of the very first things we did after closing was have a landscaper come over and tear out all of […]

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On the heels of last weeks posting of statistics just for Mukilteo, I’m also going to post stats for other areas in the North Sound.  All data compiled from but not published or verified by NWMLS. Includes Residential and Condominium.
 Area 600 (Woodinville, Duvall, Juanita/N. Kirkland, Kenmore)

Inventory

Median $

DOM

08/07
08/06
% Chg
08/07
08/06
% Chg
08/07
08/07

Active
851
529
+60%
$529,900
$524,950
+.9%
64
55

Pending
174
296
-41%
$440,975
$364,975
+20%
51
39

Sold
211
293
-28%
$442,000
$402,000
+10%
52
35

Market Absorption Rate (the amount of time it would […]

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Seattle made another top 10 list this week. Unfortunately, it was the Forbes list of Top 10 Least Affordable Cities. According to the Forbes article,
“A lot of it has to do with regulations and zoning,” says Robert Bruegmann,a history and urban planning professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.“The higher cost of doing business–and […]

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Just finished looking through the American Institute of Architects’ America’s Favorite Architecture survey results and am happy to report that Seattle has 2 entries. Predictably, Rem Koolhaas’ Seattle Public Library made the list and is ranked 108th. Less predictably, by me at least, is Safeco Field by NBBJ at 135th.
On the one hand I suppose […]

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