Real Estate Business

January 26, 2026
Jen Pells Windermere Top Ten List for 2025

My Top 10 Homes on Bainbridge Island | 2025

It is never hard for me to come up with ten homes for my annual list. The hard part is actually narrowing it down to just ten homes. I have been tempted to bump it up a few times, but I again held it to ten this year. So, the […]
January 23, 2026

Windermere’s Top 6 Predictions for 2026

Real Estate, the Economy and Bainbridge Island Windermere Principal Economist Jeff Tucker just released his 2026 housing and economic predictions, and they’re definitely worth a look. From what might happen with inventory and prices to where rates and the economy could be headed, he breaks down the key trends to […]
January 18, 2025

A Look Back at the 2024 Market & Ahead to 2025

Change is Hard The phrase I repeated the most last year was “Transitions are hard!” 2024 was a transitional year. We started shifting out of a hot seller’s market into a cooler seller’s market and by fall of last year we saw a true balanced market for the first time since 2015. […]
January 17, 2025

My Top 10 Homes on Bainbridge Island | 2024

It is never hard for me to come up with ten homes for this list. The harder part can be narrowing it down to ten. We have such charming and unique homes here on the island. It is such an honor to visit and connect clients to them over the […]
January 27, 2024
15935 Euclid Ave NE on Bainbridge Island sold by Jen Pells Windermere Bainbridge

My Top 10 Homes on Bainbridge Island | 2023

Looking back on 2023, it resembles one of the most “normal” years in real estate in a long time. But, the new normal, right? Interest rates crept up and peaked at 8% and that kept inventory low. Many of the sellers who sold really had to sell for a big […]
February 3, 2023

Matthew Gardner’s Top 10 Predictions for 2023

Hear from Windermere’s Chief Economist, Matthew Gardner, for his take on the 2023 Housing Market. 1. There Is No Housing Bubble Mortgage rates rose steeply in 2022 which, when coupled with the massive run-up in home prices, has some suggesting that we are recreating the housing bubble of 2007. But […]
January 14, 2023
811 Village Circle NW Sold on Bainbridge Island in 2022

My Top 10 Homes on Bainbridge Island | 2022

In my real estate world 2022 started off a lot like 2021, but when summer rolled around, the crazy market we were simultaneously starting to get used to and tired of, finally started to shift. The market we knew could NOT last forever, finally SLOWED DOWN. You will recognize some […]
January 27, 2022
11711 Two Creeks Road Sold by Jen Pells Windermere Bainbridge

My Top 10 Homes on Bainbridge Island | 2021

In my real estate world 2021 seemed to fly by. I think many of us felt like 2021 was more of a 13th month to 2020 versus a new year. Although we were optimistic for 2021 to bring us big, positive changes, many things remained the same. That was very […]