Rain City Guide

With more and more home buyers and sellers participating in the home buying & selling process to a greater degree than ever before, we can’t write enough posts that provide the basic infomation and skills that help them evaluate home prices. The other day I talked about the popularity and pricing of homes in differering [...]

…Alki unveils its Lady Liberty so reveals West Seattle Blog

Personal remembrance of things past…Pike Place Market, circa 1923, via Alki.  Always a wonderful surprise at Beach Drive Blog when one of these is caught on digital.   
Ballard Avenue compares the “Bootylicious” quotient of an Olympic Sculpture.  Issaquah Undressed and ART.  
The Wedgwood Blog ponders ”weighty” sidewalk issues in a “healthy” [...]

Headlines come and go…life goes on in our Seattle Neighborhoods….
A refreshing Alki twist on an old time summer favorite. On Beach Drive Blog some resident wildlife captured in aerialist feats of fishing. Discovered at West Seattle Blog rare sightings of pink birds are anticipated to be seen in West Seattle yards soon.
Happy 500th [...]

What’s going on in Seattle’s neighborhoods…
Seattle is surviving its’ I-5 construction and West Seattle Blog tells us how the Water Taxi is doing its’ part to lighten the load of commuters heading to Downtown Seattle and bypassing the construction on I-5. 
The “Sharrows” are still invading on Beach Drive Blog  
Over on BallardAvenue the watch is on to expose what [...]

Creating the list of active neighborhood blogs was only the first step in my grand vision… (or is it Greg that has the grand neighborhood vision?) Okay… Maybe there is no grand plan, but I thought it would be fun to give a roundup of recent neighborhood posts…
The West Seattle Blog has turned [...]

That March is Washington Wine Month? Several venues are having celebrations of the vino that comes from our fine state - now 2nd in sales and distribution for the United States. The link above will take you to the WA Wine Commission site for a list of venues that are celebrating the occasion. I [...]

Ask ten people and you get ten different answers. So I thought I’d give my take on Dustin’s topic from last year. Maybe every Frequent Contributor can do one on the ten things about living in Seattle that they think are worth knowing.
1) The flip side of rain - not only is the [...]

One of the commenters, Redmondjp, asked about tear downs. Kirkland is famous for new homes being put where old ones used to be. But our conversation stemmed around whether or not Bellevue and Redmond ramblers built in the 50s and 60s will go the way of these Kirkland teardowns. I know of [...]

I find that most people who track countywide stats, looking for bubbles and market trends, are not people who are buying and selling property. Anyone who is actually buying or selling property knows, that countywide stats tell you both everything and nothing. It is in the small subsections of any given market that [...]

Last week of August. Who bought what, where and for how much? Typically a slow week with agents and clients taking some time away with their families before school starts.
This is my absolute favorite property that sold this week, in Sammamish for almost $4,000,000. Going home there is like going on vacation every day after [...]