Bellingham Real Estate

 The Bellingham WA real estate news blog will discuss topics related to real estate, housing, and related issues about home ownership in the Bellingham, Washington area. We hope this blog will help buyers and sellers navigate through many of the issues home buyers and home sellers will have to deal with. We hope to ...

Lately when reading a paper, internet news services, or watching the nightly news, one might think getting a mortgage today is out of the question. That's the irony of this whole sub-prime mess.  If you have good or decent credit its actually a great time to secure long term financing on your dream home. The ...

The developer of the Bakerview Square shopping center wants to build a 15-story building with a hotel and convention center along Bakerview Road. Morgan Bartlett Jr. is still exploring the feasibility of building the project on 1 acre across the street from Fred Meyer, near Interstate 5 and along Pacific Highway, said Keith Turley, a consultant ...

One of Fairhaven’s biggest remodeling projects is nearing completion, and tenants are starting to sign up for the Waldron and Young buildings. The Waldron Building was built in the 1890s but only the first two floors were ever used. To learn more about the history of the Waldron Building and the Fairhaven Historic District try the ...

Despite the downturn in the housing market, millions of homes will still be bought and sold. At a time when price negotiations have become more vigorous, many buyers and sellers neglect one important element that could cost them thousands of dollars: the home inspection. Mike Kuhn, co-author of “The Pocket Idiot’s Guide to Home ...

Freeland, Washington now has a real estate web site dedicated to the South Whidbey Island area homes market.  The new Whidbey Island real estate site is located on the web at WhidbeyIslandRealEstate.us.  The site provides Freeland area residents with links to searching Whidbey Island area homes for ...

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 ...

Residential-home sales remain strong in Bellingham, while condominiums have fallen off last year’s pace, according to a report from First American Title. There were 1,053 new and used homes sold in Bellingham in the first seven months of 2007, which is 20 more than the same period in 2006. The number of condominiums sold through July in ...

So, you're in agony because your home has languished on the market week after week. Here are some culprits that may be keeping buyers away in droves. Has your lawn grown up around that "For Sale" sign? Have the wasps moved into the lock box on your front door? Did you just receive an invitation to your real estate agent's ...

Ferndale developer Ken Tiderington calls Portal Way Ferndale’s forgotten zone. Not much development is going on there, and it’s one of the last places any shopper goes to look for anything, he said. But Tiderington, owner of Crown Point Holdings, has a plan to change that. He hopes to begin construction on his Crown Court Estates ...