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2009 

 The Lord Acres Subarea Plan was approved.  Comments from Mark Peterson, an attorney representing one or more property owners, Mark McNaughton, a property owner and Dan Beardslee, of Erlandsen Engineering, were all positive of the plan and in support of its passage.  There was concern expressed b...
01/22/2009
Both GoLakeChelan.com and the Wenatchee World have coverage on this issues between the City of Chelan and the Tuscan Village developers on the south shore of Lake Chelan that can be found here.  One aspect of the issue that hasn't been discussed in the media,  is what happens to the other propert...
01/22/2009
Courtney Cox, who ran an unsuccessful campaign against Representative Mike Armstrong, is moving forward with one of the main items on her political agenda as a citizen rather than as a representative. If the proposed measure is determined not to need an amendment to the state constitution, a sign...
01/22/2009
Tim Eyman's latest initiative, which he is filing today, takes aim at the discontent over property taxes.  As I read it, he intends to limit government growth and cause governments to give back revenue they gain above the inflation rate by reducing property taxes. You can find out all about it he...
01/22/2009
The Seattle PI just posted this article about buyers getting off the fence in the Seattle market.  I've talked to a couple of Wenatchee brokers who feel they are seeing things picking up a bit.  The Chelan market only does well when the Seattle market is doing well.  Is a "thaw" in Chelan pending...
01/22/2009
Yesterday Voters for Fair Property Tax received feedback from the Code Reviser that their Proposed Initiative to the People (I-2207.1/09) was reviewed by the Code Reviser and put in the correct style and form.  The suggested changes (other than correcting punctuation and capitalization) are to ch...
01/22/2009
I was slow finding this, but way back on January 12th Representative Mike Armstrong also introduced Property Tax Relief  legislation.  The measures would eliminate the state portion of the property tax and cap assessments.  To see all of the bill Mike is working on, click on his picture to go to ...
01/22/2009
The 2008 sales results from my Chelan Residential Sales Summary are in. Four residential sales were recorded in the report area in December. The most startling number is that the Average Sale Price for the 4th quarter is less than half of the average for the other three quarters of the year! All ...
01/08/2009
I received the Snapshot Report from Pacific Appraisals.  Wenatchee is truly an incredible market.  While other markets have stalled or slowed dramatically this fall, Wenatchee continues steadily albeit it around 30% be...
01/08/2009
In this month's Building Industry Association of Washington newsletter, Building Insight, an article discusses the impacts on jobs and revenue due to the decrease in construction in the state of Washington. The newsletter used to be online, where I could link to it, but I can't find it now. So, I...
01/08/2009
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