Category: zoning

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Guest Today: Jesse L Young Property & Real Estate Photography & Seattle 3D Video – Open House with Team Reba Tuesdays at 3pm on KKOL 1300AM

Today we will have Jesse Young from Jesse L. Young Property & Real Estate Photography and Jeff Crompe from Seattle 3D Video on the show.  Tune in to learn more about trends they are seeing in the market, new technology that is being used and some great marketing tools to use for...

Are you chicken? 0

Are you chicken?

A local organization called Seattle Tilth is having a workshop this coming weekend in Issaquah to teach the public how to raise and keep chickens, they call it “City Chickens“.  I love the idea of it because then you can have fresh eggs, composting material for your gardens, and chickens...

Sustainable communities of note: South Lake Union 0

Sustainable communities of note: South Lake Union

I’m a big fan of Vulcan and I don’t mean Spock and his kind.  No, I mean Paul Allen’s real estate development company which has transformed the South Lake Union area after the bid for a large public park failed with the voting public of Seattle (I voted yes).  Paul Allen...

Your opportunity to help shape the City of Seattle Council’s 2009 agenda 0

Your opportunity to help shape the City of Seattle Council’s 2009 agenda

City Council Presents its 2009 Priorities and 2008 Progress Report for the City of Seattle   When: Monday, January 12, 2009 2:00 p.m.     Where: Seattle City Hall 600 Fourth Avenue Council Chambers, 2nd Floor     Why: The Council is announcing its priorities early to give citizens an...

Have you hugged a tree today?

Have you hugged a tree today?

Councilman, Richard Conlin, sends out a regular email newsletter which I receive and helps keep me up to speed on upcoming changes in the city.  One issue that has been a hotbed of contention recently between homeowners, schools, and builders is trees.  Read below for changes that are afoot: PUBLIC...

Selling a tear down ain't so easy…

Selling a tear down ain't so easy…

The brother of my partner has a name for what most of us would call a “tear down”, he calls it a crash down shack.  Recently, a colleague of mine referred a new client to me to handle what he said would be a residential transaction in the Greenwood neighborhood. After seeing...

zHome gets you zero energy and carbon neutral at home…

zHome gets you zero energy and carbon neutral at home…

zHome is a new townhome development in Issaquah, WA, up in the density focused Issaquah Highlands area, that touts a neutral carbon footprint.  Having broken ground just recently (Sept 29, 2008) near the transit station/park & ride, there is much anticipation from area residents, builders, homebuyers and real estate agents...

I wonder how this report will push owners of commercial space to update their properties to meet “green” requirements? 0

I wonder how this report will push owners of commercial space to update their properties to meet “green” requirements?

At a recent CCIM conference that I attended, one of the sessions covered the movement toward Built Green and LEED Certified commercial buildings.  For WA State, we’re in a good position for many companies because the current building codes for our state already meet many of the compliance elements of...

I love hearing and seeing success stories of past clients… 0

I love hearing and seeing success stories of past clients…

We’ve been getting some good news from many of our past clients in the last several weeks and I must say that it’s really nice after reading so much of how the media slams our industry and the gloom and doom news that abounds.  One of the stories I love...

Wenatchee on my mind… 0

Wenatchee on my mind…

No, it’s not as iconic as the song Georgia on my Mind made most famous (in my mind) by Ray Charles, but Wenatchee is now on my mind after being introduced to a great development opportunity by a fellow RE/MAX agent in this eastern WA city.  The land for sale...