It’s time for another installment of Real Actual Listing Photos. Once a month (or so) I round up some of the most bizarre listing photos from around the Seattle area and post them here, with brief excerpts from the real actual listing description, and probably a bit of snarky commentary. This month’s theme: Seattle condos!…
Category: Features
Condo Odds & Ends
I’ve collected a few random condo odds and ends over the last couple weeks that I felt like sharing, so that’s what I’m about to do. First is a condo currently on the market in Belltown, spotted by the astute WestSideBilly, and featured in a New York Times article titled What You Get for ……
Seattle Bubble Census Results
It’s been nearly four months since we ran our month-long census of Seattle Bubble readers, and it’s high time that I shared the results. During the month the survey was open, 1,147 people responded. While there were ten questions on the survey form, I won’t bore everyone with a complete, detailed breakdown of every single…
Cheapest Homes: August Edition
Let’s check in again on the cheapest homes around Seattle proper. Here’s our methodology: I search the listings for the cheapest homes currently on the market, excluding short sales, in the city of Seattle proper. Any properties that are in obvious states of extreme disrepair based on listing photos and descriptions will be excluded. This…
Friday Flashback: “No Slides, Good Condition to Build On”
Here’s an amusing pair of photos from the Seattle Municipal Archives, spotted by Vintage Seattle. At left, a real estate for sale sign posted on Perkins Lane in Magnolia in 1938. At right, a home on the very same Perkins Lane in 1954. 1938: Perkins Lane is slide-proof! The ground here is healthy and analysts…