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Beautifully maintained midcentury on an acre of Vashon Island asks $985K
This home embraces the stunning hallmarks of 1950s design.
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Vashon Island cottage comes with storybook cabin for $675K
Located on more than an acre, the home comes with trails, a stable, and plenty of space to garden.
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1900 Vashon Island farmhouse and plant nursery listed for $1M
Two acres of land and plenty of space for people and plants
This Vashon beach cottage feels like your own private island
It’s right on the water and only accessible by tram.
Modern George Suyama estate on Vashon lists for $1.3 million
Airy indoor space feels like the outdoors
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A rotunda of a house on Vashon lists for $1.1M
Is that a circus tent?
Sutter’s Castle lists at $3.5M on Vashon’s waterfront
Sutter’s Castle, a classic 1900 Victorian home on Vashon Island, is on the market for $3.5 million.
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A home with a treehouse on Vashon
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A 1905 Vashon beach house with tons of tiny bonuses
The fun doesn’t stop at the house—outbuildings provide dedicated space for work and play.
Buy into rebuilding Vashon’s Beall Greenhouses
Every home has a story. Some have layers of history. Vashon’s Beall Greenhouses have chapters starting in about a hundred years ago, and are entering a new era.
A pair of tiny cabins watch sunsets on Vashon
Why have one tiny when you can have two?
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Try tri-peaks on Vashon’s waterfront
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Sit by the sea in this $800K Vashon waterfront home
The Puget Sound is part of your backyard in this three bedroom, two and a half bath Vashon Island home.
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Artistry defines a pair of Vashon homes
An artistic touch makes this much more than a four bedroom, two and three-quarter bathroom house on Vashon Island. A cottage doubles the effect.
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$619K Vashon home topped with 'outdoor bedroom'
Start in the covered roof-top deck. That’s probably where the swinging bed hangs out. Settle into a bed that sways naturally surrounded by tall trees and hopefully gentle breezes (though probably not lately.)
Why is this sustainable house on Vashon only $210K
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$1.25M Vashon's Dig Nursery house a gardener's delight
Buy an icon. The home of Dig Nursery on Vashon is up for sale at $1,250,000. If you love plants but not your job, here's an opportunity to grow. (You may have to negotiate the business side separately.)
$595K Vashon Island manor includes inglenooks
A woodstove sits inside a blackened fireplace as if it was an upgrade to a hundred year old house; but the fireplace probably isn't older than the build date for the house, 1992. Get a bit of old New England for $595,000.
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See Colvos Passage from $385K tiny waterfront home
It stayed in a family for many generations, but evidently it's time to put this waterfront cottage on the market. Rare opportunities do occur. And sometimes they cost about $385,000.