Lake Chelan Real Estate
Lake Chelan home sales mixed in August
The sales volume of Lake Chelan homes sold in August, at 17, matched last year. But, the average sale price was down 42% to only $244,011 making the...
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Private sector cut out by Big Banks (& Feds) in buying foreclosures
The Feds have pressured banks to allow private, politically connected, non-profits “first shot” at foreclosures. These banks, all...
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Public Hearing on the South Chelan Neighborhood Plan
The Planning Commission for the City of Chelan is holding their public hearing for the South Chelan neighborhood plan. The plan will be presented by...
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Invitation to Gibson Neighborhood Planning Meeting
The City of Chelan is inviting the public to the first Gibson Neighborhood Planning meeting. Neighborhood planning is comprehensive, in-depth...
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Economist’s thoughts on “Inspirational” Housing Policy Ideas
Yale Economist, Robert Shiller, shared his thoughts on the types of housing policies that he thinks might truly help the housing market. He lamented...
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Public Housing Smoking Bans: When you live off the man, you live by his rules…
The Everett Herald reports that a smoking ban in public housing in Snohomish County could spread. A new Snohomish County policy could encourage more...
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Dog’s Night out in Chelan Friday night!
First Friday this month is a Dog’s Night Out! Every month the downtown merchants have a “First Friday” event. This month, on...
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Chelan Residents want trail to Apple Blossom Center
Chelan residents in the vicinity of Apple Blossom Center want a pedestrian and bike trail to Chelan. In an email to city, deparment of...
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Lake Chelan Sailing Regatta September 11 & 12
The Lake Chelan Sailing Regatta is almost here. Clean clear water, sunshine, and sometimes wind even, the Chelan Regatta is always fun. Even this...
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Public Comment period for Lakeside Trail, Section J
Public comment is open on the City of Chelan’s application to build Section J of the Lakeside Trail at Lakeside. The trail does route down...
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Legacy Ridge files new application for subdivision bordering Crystal View Estates
Legacy Ridge filed a new application for a 97 lot subdivision bordering Crystal View Estates and getting access to Highway 150 through Crystal View...
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Tax increase for Town Toyota Center taken off table for Chelan City Council, temporarily
At last night’s Chelan City Council meeting, Joe Jarvis and Mark Miller representing the Public Facilities District asked the council not to...
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Want to know how to tell if your home is priced to sell?
This video does a good job of going through a buyer’s perspective on homes for sale. The market will give feedback to a home seller on whether...
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The End of Summer Sale is on for Lake Chelan homes and real estate
The kids are getting ready for school, the days are getting shorter and the hottest days of summer appear to be behind us. There’s no frost on...
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Large Woody Debris might be history!
GoLakeChelan has a posting today on a meeting that was held with local citizens and Lisa Veneroso, assistant director of the Washington Department of...
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Downtown Master Plan and South Chelan Plan Hearings on September 1
The City of Chelan Planning Commission is having public hearings on the Downtown Master Plan and the South Chelan Sub-Area plan at their September 1...
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Proposed Federal Ban on transfer fees to hit Community Associations
The National Association of Realtors and the American Land Title Association have been lobbying the federal government to eliminate private transfer...
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New Home sales drop to a new record low
With this week’s numbers on record low existing home sales, it should be no surprise that new home sales also fell to a new low. Sales fell...
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Chelan City Council Agenda for Thursday, August 26 includes Tax Increase Resolution, Shoreline Public Access Hearing, Comprehensive Plan Amendment Hearing, Downtown Master Plan Workshop
The Chelan City Council meeting on Thursday has a bunch of big items on the agenda. It is at 6:00 p.m. in the Council Chambers at 135 E. Johnson....
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City Staff Recommend Putting Sales Tax Increase for Town Toyota Center on the ballot! Thursday’s council meeting agenda item!
It is called “Resolution Authorizing Public Facilities District Sales Tax Ballot Measure” and it is Resolution 06-032B. The city staff...
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Drop in home sales shouldn’t surprise
The markets reacted to the 27.2% decrease in housing sales with a big sell off today. The drop in home sales was over twice what analysts expected. ...
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Hard data that shows pricing your home right, from the beginning is critical
Do you want to put your home on the market at a “hopeful price”, knowing you can just lower it later? Certainly nobody wants to leave...
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Scammers trying to take expensive homes in Kirkland and Bellevue
There is a group of scammers in the Puget Sound area that appears to be staking claims on expensive homes that have been foreclosed upon by banks....
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Arena Sales Tax Measure gets mixed reviews by local entities
The Wenatchee World has an article today titled “Arena sales tax measure faces long odds.” The paper interviewed folks from each of the 9...
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Wenatchee Area Home sales drop sharply in July
Wenatchee area home sales fell 30% in Wenatchee and 42% in the MLS for July as compared to one year ago. Year to date, sales are only off about 5%...
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