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December 07, 2007

Friday Photo...Snow the First Day of December!

Last week for Friday Photo I wrote that it was beginning to look a lot like Christmas....  Well, the next day on Saturday, December 1st we had snow!  Not our average December weather.

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Since I did not have an Open House that Saturday, I decided to take the day off to go shopping with a friend for Christmas decorations.  We had snow flurries at University Village, and when we went to the West Seattle Target there was lots more snow.

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Afterwards we drove along Beach Dr, then Alki and back to Seattle, the snow was lovely!

Alki_after_light_snowfall

June 07, 2007

John L. Scott launches "Neighborhood Wizard" Search Tool for Home Buyers!

Last night around midnight, John L. Scott launched it's new online toy for Home Buyers to make searches easier with the Neighborhood Wizard search toolThe Neighborhood Wizard allows searches to be customized by "drawing a boundary line" with the mouse around the area that the Home Buyer is interested in.  This allows a narrower search area than could be done before, and helps to make sure a Home Buyer does not miss a home that the Listing Agent may have entered under a different neighborhood name, or perhaps the Home Buyer is unaware of.

So just after midnight I was playing around with this cool new tool and did several searches to get a feel for how it works.  The last one I did was a complicated boundary outline around Alki which was fairly easy to do once you got the hang of "clicking" at each point before changing direction. 

Bravo to John L. Scott (Okay confession...JLS is my broker so I am a little biased, but this is a really cool tool for Home Buyers!) for continuing to be a major leader with Real Estate innovation!

May 25, 2007

Montlake, in the Mild and Fair Month of May...

My new Montlake  listing-to-be is nearing the end of it's "spa treatment" with a contractor who is freshening it up so I will be be listing it for sale in the Seattle Real Estate market in a week or two.  There are many details to be attended to for my client who lives out of state, and since we are nearing it's completion, I have been spending even more time at the house and working with the contractor in my client's absence, and my job at the Listing Agent has not even begun!

The Montlake neighborhood is absolutely gorgeous right now with our mild and fair May weather producing lush flowers, shrubs and trees.  Wednesday afternoon and evening I spent planting the flowers for the newly redone front yard and noticed all the walker's, some with their beautiful dogs, and joggers out in the afternoon and evening.  Everyone seemed to be particularly enjoying the beautiful days, and many gave me complements on how wonderful "my garden" (to complicated to explain that I was the Real Estate Agent !) was turning out.

Montlake, with it's many Tudor style homes, lovely gardens and parks reminds me of what I imagine England is like, of course since I have never actually been there, my mental images are based on movies and books!  3595_nearby_tudor_3595

  The neighborhood is surrounded by parks so is very green and peaceful, and since much of it is level with some gentle slopes, the neighborhood is perfect for enjoying an evening stroll or jog.  There are many great places to walk, jog or ride a bike in Seattle, places like Green Lake , Alki or other parks, but not so many that are the neighborhood itself like Montake.

My seller's home is returning to it's previous lovely state with the attention it has been receiving this spring, and like the Montlake neighborhood itself, springtime refreshed and soon ready to be enjoyed by it's new owners. 

March 30, 2007

The Seattle Real Estate Adventure Begins!

Seattle20skyline20photos205119052_4Exploring Seattle's Urban Villages, let the Adventure begin!

Seattle has so many interesting and unique neighborhoods, or what I like to call "Urban Villages".  Places like Ballard, Magnolia, Queen Anne, Belltown, Pioneer Square, West Seattle, Capitol Hill, Madison Valley, MadronaMadison Park, Montlake, Wallingford, Green Lake, and Fremont, the self proclaimed "Center of the Universe"! 

I have probably left out a few of your favorites, but we will add them as we explore what makes each one a unique place to live or visit.   

Learning what makes a Seattle neighborhood special and appealing to you (and me as a Seattle Real Estate Agent) helps to narrow down the choices when you are selecting a place in Seattle's exciting real estate market to live and eventually buying a home in Seattle.  Of course selecting a location is only part of what makes up the Seattle Real Estate market.  There is the hard data of sales figures, history and trends, the lending process, the home buying processes, marketing a home for sale and more.... 

So come with me and join in on the Adventure!

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