Lake Chelan Washington Real Estate Blog

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Yes, we do have affordable homes in Lake Chelan.  These 28 homes include community waterfront, acreage properties and view properties.  All are priced below $200,000! The lowest price home starts at just over $160,000!  If you have heard Lake Chelan is expensive, maybe some of these homes might c...
03/19/2009
I started another Lake Chelan Real Estate Blog.  I wanted something for Lake Chelan Home Buyers and Sellers that is very current on the market and is covering day to day changes in available properties. I added a real estate blog to cover different types of things to my Criterion Properties web s...
03/19/2009
The residents and property owners around Lake Chelan are having an issue with taxes.  The county only revalues property every 4 years, and valuations skyrocketed last year.  Values going up by a factor of 5 was not uncommon. The bills came this month and there are some whoppers.  Many property ta...
03/19/2009
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On St. Patrick's day, or the Saturday near it, Chelan holds its Top Dog parade.  It is a hoot, and doesn't take much time out of the day. Here are some of the fun things from this year's Kelly's Hardware Top Dog Parade: It seems like nearly everybody comes out and either is in the parade, or watc...
03/19/2009
Things are picking up here.  Also, the news is not all negative! I found a Wall Street Journal article about a glimmer of hope in the California real estate market where for the first time in 10 months there was not a month to month reduction in the median price of home sales. Investor's Business...
03/19/2009
I have a rant about affordable housing, the reasons it is an issue and the fixes which are opposite of what is occurring.  Yesterday, I updated my rant with some recent articles. I could argue, that we have affordable homes for sale at Lake Chelan today!  But, you can click the link and decide fo...
03/19/2009
The Wenatchee market continues it's relatively healthy level of 25 to 30% down from a year ago.  It has held around there for 6 months of so! Snapshot report for March is out, and the sales are continuing their approximate levels of the last six months or so.  You can also see the quickest and sl...
03/19/2009
 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
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