April showered the market with enough homes that picking five favorites wasn’t easy. Here are five that range from sweeping estates to impressively efficient tinies.
We scrolled back through a month of listings to find five of our favorite homes for sale in September. Picking only five is never easy. Our area certainly has a wide variety to choose from so let's take a look back at the home that stood out.
Fans of Chip and Joanna Gaines and the HGTV show Fixer Upper will tell you they've heard a lot about shiplap. Perhaps too much. But here's one spin on the shiplap fad that brings things full circle. A shiplap-walled home that's actually a ship.
For a floating home that was originally built in 1930, the 732 square-foot Unit C at 2035 Fairview Avenue E is looking pretty good. It's also available now for $525K.
Welcome back to Curbed Comparisons, where we scour Seattle's listings to see what your budget will get you across the city. Today we decided to find out what $600,000 can get you all around town. You tell us which lease you'd sign.
Last year, this modern, Jenga Tower-looking floating home at 2821 Fairview Avenue E hit the market asking $3.3M. After a few months it came back off but now they've re-listed and taken $100K off the asking price.
Welcome back to Curbed Comparisons, where we scour Seattle's listings to see what your budget will get you across the city. Today we decided to find out what $300,000 can get you all around town. You tell us which lease you'd sign.
After a month of looking at houses, there are always a few that stand out - purely for the fun of it. Let's see what their status is and whether or not buyers bought in.
Forget Sleepless in Seattle, well, at least in terms of the typical Seattle houseboat. The classic floating houses on Lake Union that began the trend are small, pragmatic, and cozy.
Remember when we told you about this floating home, a.k.a. one of the ten greatest homes of all-time in Seattle? This large Craftsman-style floater in Eastlake hit the open market on May 3 asking $1,795,000. It just sold for $2,000,000.
Skipping convention by putting the kitchen upstairs and the master downstairs makes sense for the unconventional lifestyle that is living on a floating home.
Take a tiny house, give it two stories, put it on something that floats and you get a tall and skinny floating house that doesn't take up much space but sits within panoramic views of Lake Union.
It's Renovation Week but before something can get renovated it has to be in need of such a thing. We mapped 10 fixer-uppers worth investing in, from a $1.5M Victorian in Queen Anne to tiny West Seattle Craftsman with curious property potential.
It looks new, but that simplicity is historic. Seattle's floating house culture reaches back over a hundred years. This floating home proves it. In 1915 the floating houses weren't very large, evidently. This one looks like a tiny Craftsman.
The median price of a 1-BR is $1,750/month, up three percent from the previous month and 9.4 percent year-over-year. The median 2-BR will run you $2,350/month, up 14.6 percent since last year, the fourth fasting growing number in the nation.