This beautiful luxury 4 bedroom home for sale in downtown Seattle WA is expected to be a real hit amongst a keen community of buyers. Thus, we do not expect this property to be around on the market for long so an early viewing is highly recommended.

Originally built in 1903, this luxury 4 bedroom home for sale has been nicely maintained by its owners ever since. This luxury 4 bedroom home enjoys excellent access to the downtown Seattle lifestyle and community, yet retains the homey, cozy atmosphere of an independent house. The interior of this luxury 4 bedroom home for sale was remodeled as recently as 2006, and residents will look out onto partial views of the Sound from its upper floors.  The structure of this luxury 4 bedroom home for sale in downtown Seattle WA encompasses approximately 2,550 square feet and sits on a lot of 3,600 square feet, surrounded by other very well-kept unique properties.

The inside of this luxury 4 bedroom home for sale enjoys a superbly architectural floor plan, allowing unobstructed flow from room to room. Entertaining in this cozy luxury 4 bedroom home for sale in downtown Seattle WA is a real pleasure, thanks to the scheme, which can take place on the two upper stories both inside and out. Again, with big thanks to the modern open exterior decks. This luxury 4 bedroom home for sale is a three-story single-family house with three bathrooms.

The lovely interior aspects of this luxury 4 bedroom home for sale continue into the kitchen. This luxury 4 bedroom home’s kitchen comes equipped with dishwasher, range/oven, refrigerator, and garbage disposal. The kitchen of this luxury 4 bedroom home for sale in downtown Seattle WA was part of the 2006 remodeling, and is in first-class condition. Everything in this luxury 4 bedroom home is meant to impart a sense of comfort and ease between the transition from your external activities and your home life. For this reason the owners of this luxury 4 bedroom residence installed an in-home carport leading directly from the street.

There is a great equality to the spacing of rooms in this luxury 4 bedroom home for sale, which awaits your house warming touch. Keeping suit with the excellent spacing of this luxury 4 bedroom home for sale is an abundance of natural light, which flows in through the house’s ample windows. Embrace the maximized, luxurious comfort of this 4 bedroom home for sale, and enjoy the opportunity to make it your own. This luxury 4 bedroom home for sale is like a blank canvas; we tempt you to turn it into your masterpiece.

The master bedroom of this luxury 4 bedroom home for sale can be described as suite-like, and it enjoys access to its own bathroom.

Other features of this luxury 4 bedroom home for sale in downtown Seattle WA are a small rear garden/lawn and space for RV parking in the front driveway. Downtown Seattle is a quintessential zone in Washington State that represents dynamic and tranquil community-style location for this appealing 4 bedroom home for sale. The downtown community that surround this luxury 4 bedroom home for sale is a real pleasure to step out into, as it is excellently rated for its cleanliness, walkability, public transportation, and parks & recreation facilities.

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This remodeled 2 bedroom home for sale in downtown Seattle is a captivating property that is sure to be popular with an eager group of buyers and potential developers. We highly recommend an early visit to this remodeled 2 bedroom home for sale, as it will surely go quickly!

This single-story remodeled 2 bedroom home for sale in downtown Seattle was originally constructed in 1946, and has been well maintained through recent renovations since. This cozy single-family remodeled 2 bedroom home for sale encompasses 850 square feet, and sits on a generous parcel of 7,200 square feet. Within its context, the lot of this remodeled 2 bedroom home for sale represents an amazing deal for the buyer who is thinking of expanding the original house or potentially building another house, studio or suite. This has been a popular and successful operation around the neighborhood with similar properties, which have seen new households or occupants move in. This remodeled 2 bedroom home for sale requires very minor TLC and is awaiting your innovative touch.

The interior of this remodeled 2 bedroom home for sale features one bathroom, an open re-finished kitchen, and an attic with ample storage space. The living room and bathroom were also tastefully remodeled. Other sparkling features of this remodeled 2 bedroom home for sale in downtown Seattle include new windows, a new roof, and a laundry room. The new owner will also recuperate all appliances of this remodeled 2 bedroom home for sale. The remodeled 2 bedroom home is heated by a reliable baseboard system. Exterior to this remodeled 2 bedroom home for sale in downtown Seattle are front and back yards, which are fenced on two sides. Parking to this remodeled 2 bedroom home is available at the property.

This remodeled 2 bedroom home for sale takes part in a fantastic downtown Seattle neighborhood that is well reputed as being clean and safe. This remodeled 2 bedroom home for sale is two blocks from the South Seattle Community College in West Seattle and has an access to the activity downtown Seattle and Alki Beach’s lively community atmosphere in 10 minutes. Proximity to these diverse neighborhood dynamics gives this remodeled 2 bedroom home for sale a unique position between the property’s natural seclusion and openness to the more active Seattle surroundings.

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The latest stats on the Seattle area's real estate market show some big shifts in home sellers' confidence.  As the market continues to recede in terms of the number of homes available for sale, sellers are raising prices in anticipation of more buyer competition.

Asking prices for homes in the Seattle market increased 13.1 percent year-over-year in February, according to a recent report by Trulia.  That's a significant shift, and goes along with the increase in closed sales prices which is hovering around 10 percent right now.

At the same time, there has been a 38 percent reduction in inventory.  This constriction on the market is causing some of the unanticipated velocity in home price appreciation.  From Inman News:

Asking prices of homes listed for sale on real estate portal Trulia.com in February were up from a year ago in 90 of the 100 largest U.S. metros, according to a monthly report from Trulia released today.

The report, which covers roughly 4.5 million for-sale and for-rent properties listed on Trulia through Feb. 28, showed asking prices up 7 percent from a year ago, and growing by a seasonally adjusted 1.4 percent from January to February -- the biggest month-over-month gain since the housing recession began.

Despite these asking price increases, inventory will remain tight throughout 2013, said Trulia's chief economist, Jed Kolko.

"The inventory turnaround depends not only on how fast prices are rising today, but also whether prices have been rising long enough to encourage homeowners to sell and builders to build," Kolko said in a statement.

The lights of Downtown Seattle are fabulous at night and the streets are fairly safe in most places. Normal common sense should be observed just as when you are anywhere, but overall, I have never had cause to be overly concerned. I do tighten my grip on my purse from time to time, but Seattle enjoys a relatively low crime rate when compared to other urban areas of the country. It is one of the reasons why the Downtown Seattle is so livable!

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Downtown Seattle Condos For Sale

Downtown Seattle real estate has been slower than typical until recently and now there is a certain lack of inventory.  If you are interested in selling your Downtown Seattle condo, Belltown Condo, or Pioneer Square loft, please let me know - we have several buyers looking right now.  

courtney@cooperjacobs.com 

The number of homes for sale in the Seattle area has been dwindling for the past year.  We've reported month after month that there were more homes being sold than those coming on the market.  It seemed that sellers would soon come out of the woodwork, realizing that there was little competition from other sellers and that buyers were eager to purchase.

That simply hasn't happened yet.  The number of homes for sale continues to drop, and the masses of frustrated buyers continue to increase.  This past month, the NWMLS reported just 1.39 months of housing supply in King County.  Real estate analysts usually point to a number around 5-6 months of supply as a "balanced" market, or one that is fairly even for buyers and sellers.  It points to a healthy number of available homes but no oversupply.

I can't remember ever hearing of shortage of homes for sale this severe, and certainly not when there are so many eager buyers in the market.  The number of competitive, multiple-offer situations has become so large that we expect it on almost any transaction.  If a home near the major metros in the Puget Sound region is priced correctly and prepared for the market, it is now a better than 50/50 chance that it will sell in less than one month.

I'll repeat that for effect.  60 percent of homes being listed in the major job centers of the greater Seattle area are selling in one month or less.

It's true that some home sellers may be underwater, or have other financial issues that are holding them back, but that's a fraction of the market.  Some sellers think that they might just "wait it out until the market comes back."

If you've just read this article, you already know.  The market is back.

So, Seattle home sellers:   Where are you?

There’s a spot on Interstate 5 when you’re heading northbound into downtown Seattle. The Space Needle shows up next to the Smith Tower and appears as if it’s right downtown amongst all the other buildings.

I discovered this view one day when I was stuck in traffic on the morning commute and became obsessed with getting a good photo of it. So many things had to be synchronized just right, the morning light, traffic had to be backed up at just that point with no trucks blocking the view, and there’s only a second to click off a couple of shots.

This took me about a year and a half and several hundred shots to finally capture the view and get an image I could work with.

I love taking digital photos and playing with them in some graphic tools on my PC to render it into a manipulated drawing. Then I go in and free hand it to add or erase. When it looks the way I want I print it out and use colored pencils or markers or paint it using watercolors. Then I take a photo of the painting or scan it depending on the image size and turn it back into a digital format so I can do the final touch up one the colors, contrast, shadows, and saturation etc.

Needle and Towers was done with a little bit of all of the above techniques. I’m going to have it printed on canvas so I can hang it on a wall in my dining area. Can't wait to see how it turns out.

"Where there's conversation, there's opportunity."

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First American Title 24722 104th Ave SE Suite 100 Kent, WA 98030

The Smith Tower...

I have been in love with the Smith Tower for quite sometime.

Built in 1914, It was the first and biggest skyscraper on the West Coast for the longest time. It is Art Deco and iconic and just wonderful. Death Cab For Cutie's frontman Benjamin Gibbard reminded me again and rekindled my love with his release of "Teardrop Windows" off his latest solo release. I had to go visit this beautiful building again...

Going to visit this iconic Seattle landmark

Did you know that there is an observation deck at the Smith Tower? Cheaper than the Space Needle and complete with the only remaining manually operated elevator on the West Coast, it is an incredible view over Pioneer Square with sweeping views of the Sound and Downtown Seattle.

The Smith Tower is truly a Seattle landmark. It should be on the must do list for everyone who lives here and also for visitors from out of the area. If you invite your out of town guests to do the Underground Tour (which I recommend), then you should definitely take them to the top of the Smith Tower as well.

Other misc... The elevator will let you out in the Chinese Room which is adorned with beautiful wood carvings and furniture that was a gift from the Chinese Empress of the day. It is a great venue for weddings and other events.

There is office space available in the Smith Tower, but contrary to what is circulating out there, there are no current plans in place for upscale condos. The Smith Tower has recently gone through change of ownership because the former owners defaulted on the loan, but all tenants have been able to stay there and there are some pretty amazing spaces available right now from what I could see. I will have to look up some of the specifics, but was told as a curious "tourist" $30/square foot which is pretty reasonable for the area. I think I might look into that as a very cool place to put a Downtown Seattle branch - yes?

Here's some more info on buying something near the Smith Tower if interested:

Downtown Seattle Real Estate