Seattle Real Estate Blog ~ Seattle's Urban Villages ~ Deborah Burns

Today I confirmed that the person who called me a week ago asking me for a valuation for a home found me on the internet...I have a presence on the World Wide Web!  Initially I thought he had found me on my John L. Scott agent webpage, but today when I called to follow up from our appointment las...

Yesterday, May 20th 2007, The Seattle Times published it's annual Home Values review for 2007.  Their analysis reflects what Seattle Real Estate Agents have been experiencing in the trenches of the 2006 Real Estate Market in Seattle.  This is very different to last years Bubble talk of a collapsi...

Last Sunday while reading the Seattle Times, I ran across an interesting real estate article:  "Not your typical U.S. surplus: posh embassies", written by Matthew Lee of the Associated Press , and I found the article on-line to share with you at the Boston Globe .  The properties locations were r...

SAM - Seattle Art Museum's Grand Opening weekend Well the party was a success and SAM is open again at last!  Over the weekend the Seattle Art Museum celebrated it's re-opening by throwing a 35 hour party for free to every one who showed up.  I went with a friend Saturday night, but the line to g...

The Grand Opening of SAM: The Seattle Art MuseumThe Seattle Art Museum, SAM, will be celebrating it's Grand Opening May 5th & 6th.  The museum has been closed for it's expansion, and is now almost ready for it's Grand Opening Debut next week.  This has been a very busy year so far for SAM, becaus...

Last Saturday I was across the hall in another agents office chatting about Seattle real estate (what else!) and I noticed on the screen of her laptop an article on MSN.  The article was on the ethics of using PhotoShop to "touch up" online photos used in marketing.  This was a very interesting a...

The Seattle Weekly this week published an article by Sue Peters: "Poetic Engineering; Will the new 520 bridge be one 'where you turn off and want to go over it again'?".  There are a group of  Montlake neighbors who are concerned with the Washington State Department of Transportation's (WSDOT ) c...

 Late last week another Seattle Real Estate Agent in my office got a call on a listing of hers from an unrepresented buyer, a buyer not working with an agent. My colleague asked me to meet with the buyer since she (rightly) prefers to represent her Seller 100% and not act as a Dual Agent, represe...

Montlake, one of Seattle's Urban Villages...                        ...is where I have been spending a lot of time these past few weeks.  I am working with some out of state clients to prepare their house to enter the Seattle Real Estate market later this spring.  It has been an interesting proje...

Seattle - Montlake's Arboretum Waterfront Park Spring was in the air this week, so I headed to Montlake to take a walk at the Arboretum's Waterfront Park.   This is a great place to take a walk and getaway to enjoy a little nature break here in Seattle, and the City is very close by with the 520 ...