Lake Chelan Washington Real Estate Blog

The City of Chelan on July 14, 2010 received a Planned Development District application. A determination of complete application was issued on August 20, 2010. Proposal: The project is a master planned resort that will include up to 45 cottage style one and two story units approximately 8.2 acres...

As you can imagine, most "highest priced" homes in the Lake Chelan area are waterfront homes. So far, in 2010, the highest price home sale was $2,050,000 for a 3 bedroom, 3.5 bath approximately 6000 square foot home at 142 Spader Bay Road in the City of Chelan. This is pretty close to last year's...

By dollar volume, Lake Chelan home sales in July were only 49% of one year ago. By number of homes closed, the drop was 40%. Check out all of the July results and historical numbers back through 2005 at the Lake Chelan Real Estate Home Sales Summary. No waterfront homes closed in July of this yea...

The Realist value tool is now available at Lake Chelan. Only NWMLS members have access to it. The Northwest MLS (NWMLS) recently added a tool to their members' arsenals in the Realist ValueMap Tool. This tool provides a map and valuation estimation of a home by address, and the estimated value of...

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It's been a rough ride for homeowners. Sales are up then sales are down, prices are up and prices are down, you should probably be renting anyway according to some reports. Cheer up, at least one report says Washington is in for strong housing demand by 2014. The report, from Fiserv, says the bot...

The Twisted Pearl has been a rather infamous Lake Chelan party boat the last several years. It has generated complaints from residents and visitors alike for anchoring out near Wapato Point and having big parties. But, it looks like its days on Lake Chelan, at least as the Twisted Pearl, may be n...

A Seattle software company provides a web based service that checks whether your property valuation is too high for free and then helps you appeal your valuation and generates an appeal report. ValueAppeal claims 40% of property owners overpay their property taxes. Appealing your property valuat...

Photographs are the language of real estate marketing. Words just don't express the feel of a home like good photography can. On the other hand, poor photos can convey a message that is detrimental to marketing a home. An out of the area realtor has a fun site called Truly Awful Listing Photos. Y...

The National Association of Realtors and American Land Title Association are working to get the Federal Housing Finance Agency to effectively ban private transfer fees by banning Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from backing loans with private transfer fees covenants. The Federal Housing Finance Agency...