Category: Bellevue
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How Much Does a 3-Bedroom Home Cost on the Eastside of King County?
For those who want to live on the Eastside in King County, affordability can be a challenge. So which cities on the Eastside can you find the best home values? In this post, we are comparing Bellevue, Redmond, Kirkland, Woodinville, Bothell, and Kenmore median home prices so you can get a sense of how much…
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Top 6 Places to Live To Commute to Seattle & Bellevue
We see this all the time in real estate: A couple is buying a home, and one person works in Bellevue and the other person works in Seattle. One person will end up needing to cross a bridge for their commute, meaning we need to find a home in a neighborhood that offers easy access…
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What to Expect in 2022: Seattle & Bellevue Real Estate Market Update
Are you planning on buying or selling a home in Seattle or in Bellevue (or anywhere on the Eastside) this year? Are you just feeling curious about what’s going on in real estate? We’re here to update you on what to expect in local real estate as we head into 2022. Here’s a quick overview…
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A Bellevue Home Listed for $900,000 Just Received 57 Offers
2021 has gotten off to an *intense* start, to say the least. At the beginning of January, we did a blog post on Seattle + the Eastside’s real estate market. One of the things we talked about was how much median home prices in Bellevue went up from 2019 to 2020. Here’s a little review:…
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Seattle & Bellevue Real Estate Market Update: Homes are HOT & Here’s What You Need to Know About Selling Your Condo
In 2020, we saw homebuyer patterns shift dramatically, and these trends are continuing into 2021. If we had to sum up current King County real estate trends in just 2 quick takeaways, here they are: Single-family homes are like GOLD. Condo sales are down nearly in every area in King County. Now I’m going to…
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Millennials Are Growing Up & 2020 is Helping Them Decide on the Suburbs
Millennials aren’t kids anymore—they’re about 24-39 years old now. (Generally people born in the ~1981-1996 range are considered Millennials.) And many Millenials are starting to have or already having kids. 2020 has been a rough year to live in the heart of the city, and until now, many Millennials have preferred the urban landscape. We’re…
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Locally Owned, Laidback, & Low-key Restaurants in Bellevue
If you haven’t spent much time in Bellevue, we’re willing to bet that your main impression of the city is based on shopping at some of their impressive one-stop shopping centers. This also means that you may have only seen and experienced Bellevue’s many larger restaurant chains, and you might even feel like Bellevue kind…
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3 Top Reasons Why People LOVE Shopping in Bellevue More Than Seattle
Bellevue is a destination city for shoppers all around the region—people will drive from cities near and far to spend the day in Bellevue stimulating the economy! Many people (especially Seattleites of course) will head to Downtown Seattle for holiday shopping, for example, and we get the sense that people do this because they feel…
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Exciting Times Are Here for Seattle’s Eastside
Seattle’s Eastside (which includes cities like Bellevue, Kirkland, Redmond, Factoria, Issaquah, Bothell, etc.) is really showing off lately for a few different reasons. As impacts from COVID-19 push people toward the suburbs more and more, we’re seeing our clients look to cities on the Eastside for a variety of reasons. Here are just a few…
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This Bellevue Condo Got the Get Happy at Home Star Treatment! See Our Before & After Renovations Photos
If you’ve been following along with us for awhile then you already know that we LOVE a good home renovation! We work with our seller clients to manage everything from simple refreshes to complete home renovations, and our latest Bellevue condo listing was no different. When this gem in the rough came to us, it…