Bellingham Real Estate

Whatcom County’s home sales continue to plug along around last year’s pace, according to the latest numbers from the Northwest Multiple Listing Service. In Whatcom County, 275 NWMLS homes and condominiums sold during October, down from 289 for the same period last year, according to the listing service’s report released ...

In Birch Bay, WA developers have invested about $30 million buying land, installing infrastructure and building a sales house, but not one of the 650 high-end homes planned for the Horizon at Semiahmoo development has been constructed. That’s about to change. “We’ve got the first phase essentially completed with about 74 ...

A national economist painted a fairly optimistic picture of Whatcom County’s economy and real estate market at an annual presentation held at the Mount Baker Theatre. Ted Jones, chief economist for Stewart Title, gave his 2007 economic forecast to more than 200 attendees on Thursday. Jones touched on a variety of economic issues, but liked ...

Well it’s no secret now, the pendulum on the real estate market as we know it today has swung back in favor of the buyers.  Home sales and prices started to slow towards the end of 2005 and all of 2006.  2007 is expected to be slow as well but finally start to show signs of recovery by the fall.  The buyers have a window of ...