Bainbridge Island Housing Market
January 26, 2018
9175 Ferncliff Avenue NE is a quality constructed Craftsman home in the convenient Ferncliff Area of the island. The home emulates the quintessential Bainbridge style and is anything but cookie-cutter. Custom built by VanWinkle, this property offers a 3,367 square feet on a lovely, private, .47 acre lot tucked behind a mature laurel hedge. Public beach access […]
January 22, 2018
Celebrating a New Year A Look Back As we welcome a new year, we explore some of the dynamics that played out while we marched through the 2017 cal- endar. Our market saw a decline in the number of homes sold between 2013 and the start of 2017, despite healthy […]
July 19, 2013
Making Sense of a Strengthening Market The statistics for the first half of 2013 are encouraging but a bit confusing. You look at the number of homes sold and there is joy. A total of 205 homes sold in the first six months even surpasses the “go-go” days of 2006 and 2007. […]
July 29, 2012
Drum Roll, Please . . . Those of us in the real estate trenches have always considered the middle of 2007 as the peak of the Bainbridge market. The correction began on or about September 1, 2007 (let’s say at 3:30 in the afternoon for dramatic effect). So it is […]
January 3, 2011
My favorite homes of the 2010 Bainbridge Island Housing Market 10 Old Mill Road Original List Price $528,000 Sale Price $525,000 Days on the market 16 Date sold 8/23/10 I love this house because it was built by one of my favorite builders, Bill Corbin. It is light, open and […]
October 8, 2010
These graphs take a step back and look at the last three years. We are certainly on a downward trend in regards to price per square foot, but we see that irregular, erratic market at play through all of the seasons. Winter months like December of 2008 and January of […]
September 27, 2010
The chart below compares single family homes on Bainbridge Island – For Sale vs. Sold vs. Pended. You can see we had an inventory spike in July, which follows the seasonal trend of high inventory in the summer. The current inventory number for September is 238, so we are already […]
July 23, 2010
These days, the news related to the economy is generally doom and gloom. On the national level, things are still not good. However, in terms of real estate, the market is always a local one. Other real estate markets do effect ours, that is for sure. If I have […]