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

I just finished watching HGTV's "What's With That Really Expensive House?" and there was a house featured in the program that I have been in.  The program visited 5 homes from all over the US ranging from $22,000,000 to $79,000,000.  Three of them were waterfront homes, and all had amazing amenit...

Recently some Buyer Clients called me to let me know that they were back in Seattle and ready to see the new listing I had emailed them Friday night.  Since it was Sunday, and the house just came on the Seattle Real Estate market late Friday, there was an Open House scheduled that afternoon.  The...

For me, moving to Seattle from Southern California (San Diego via Orange county) in the fall of 1994 was a wild idea since I did not know a soul...but I had my reasons! #10 - The affordability of buying a house in Seattle...relative!  Of course my first day of looking for a place to live (as a re...

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...