Mer­ri Ann Simon­son checks in again with this mon­th’s mar­ket snap­shot. Here she is with more… This is the Decem­ber Mar­ket Snap­shot as pre­sent­ed by the Simon­son and Zam­brovitz Team. The mar­ket is very sim­i­lar to last year this time as it relates to inven­to­ry and pend­ing transactions.

The San Juan Com­mu­ni­ty Home Trust held its Annu­al Meet­ing recent­ly. The theme of the meet­ing was cel­e­bra­tion — of 20 years of oper­a­tion of the Home Trust, 41 per­ma­nent­ly afford­able homes devel­oped and occu­pied, and anoth­er 8 units com­ing online in 2022. The vision and work of the organization’s founders was rec­og­nized in a con­ver­sa­tion  Con­tin­ue Reading

Mer­ri Ann Simon­son has anoth­er Real Estate News col­umn for you… Real Estate Is Best When Kept Local Using local real estate bro­kers and local real estate relat­ed ser­vice providers is very impor­tant when buy­ing or sell­ing real estate.  Boots on the ground here brings the exper­tise.  Fur­ther, it is sim­i­lar to buy­ing local­ly sourced food and  Con­tin­ue Reading

20 years, 41 homes, 61 low-and mod­­er­ate-income earn­ing fam­i­lies have enjoyed home own­er­ship and liv­ing sta­bil­i­ty on San Juan Island. Incor­po­rat­ed in 2001 as a Com­mu­ni­ty Land Trust Devel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion, the San Juan Com­mu­ni­ty Home Trust is cel­e­brat­ing its 20th year of devel­op­ing per­ma­nent­ly afford­able hous­ing on San Juan Island.  The vision of founders Lar­ry  Con­tin­ue Reading

This is the Novem­ber 1st Real Estate Mar­ket Snap Shot for San Juan Island.  The infor­ma­tion was pro­vid­ed by the Simon­son and Zam­brovitz Team that work at Cold­well Banker San Juan Islands.

What’s going on with Vaca­tion Rental Per­mit­ting in San Juan Coun­ty?  Tune in to find out Wednes­day, Octo­ber 27, 2021, when Land Use Con­sul­tant, Francine Shaw, gives us the 411 and answers your ques­tions.  Click the link below to reg­is­ter for the Noon Zoom! https://sanjuanrealestateresources.com/resources/ola/services/vacation-rental-permitting-on-sji

Mer­ri Ann Simon­son shares this mar­ket sum­ma­ry with you… The third quar­ter results for San Juan Island and San Juan Coun­ty were con­sis­tent with the first quar­ter results; very robust.  Our mar­ket con­tin­ues to out­per­form all his­toric land­marks. Per the NWMLS, the dol­lar vol­ume year-to-date on San Juan Island was $184,762,056 with a total of 254  Con­tin­ue Reading

Below is our Mar­ket Snap Shot for Octo­ber 2021 com­plet­ed by Mer­ri Ann Simon­son.  This one focus­es on the amount of inven­to­ry.  Even though our inven­to­ry is low, it has yet to impact our clos­ing vol­ume.  Our full quar­ter­ly newslet­ter will be out next week, and it pro­vides full details, vol­ume is huge this year.