Northwest Traditional Style Homes Will Outpace Market

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For me, one of the most enjoyable aspects of selling residential real estate in the Northwest has always been the appealing architecture of our home grown traditional styling. The large-ish local builders have taken pains over the years to build homes that exuded classic styling without being absurdly ostentatious, and were a bit above “affordable”, at least in the late ’80’s …

Redmond Ridge East: Here It Comes…..

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Nice coverage by the Seattle Time’s Ashley Bach on Redmond Ridge East, the final phase of the master planned community East of Redmond. Redmond Ridge, with the development of a nice, user friendly commercial core of businesses and services, coupled with the Trilogy Golf Course, is a great place to live. Murray Franklyn agreed to purchase this final phase from …

This Guy Is Smart, But I Could Have Saved Him The Time………;->

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Having built a home in unincorporated King County a few years ago, I was introduced to the quagmire known as the building permit process at the King County Department of Development and Environmental Services [“DDES”]. The fees, the time, the various departments and their processes, was enough to ensure that I would not try it again. Having worked with several …