The San Juan Com­mu­ni­ty Home Trust is pleased to announce the com­ple­tion of its twelfth and final house in the Sun Rise II neigh­bor­hood. This home, known as “Stew­art,” is the only one of the hous­es not barged over from Vic­to­ria, B.C.. Instead, the house was donat­ed by the DuPar fam­i­ly from Decatur Island and  Con­tin­ue Reading

By Louise Dus­trude Two liv­ing spaces intend­ed as vaca­tion rentals have become year-round res­i­dences instead because of Covid 19, and two oth­ers have become com­mer­cial spaces, accord­ing to Lynn Dana­her, the own­er. Ryan Ben­nett, Lynn’s son and co-own­er, has been remod­el­ing and upgrad­ing the four units at the cor­ner of Argyle Avenue and Web Street, for­mer­ly  Con­tin­ue Reading

Mer­ri Ann Simon­son checks in with a Sec­ond Quar­ter Real Estate sum­ma­ry… The sec­ond quar­ter results, which com­plete the first half of the year, in San Juan Coun­ty were extreme­ly good when con­sid­er­ing the virus impact.   Per the NWMLS, the dol­lar vol­ume in San Juan Coun­ty was $118,381,567 with a total of 201 trans­ac­tions. The  Con­tin­ue Reading

Mer­ri Ann Simon­son has a new entry in her San Juan Island Lifestyle Video series. This one is about San Juan Island Real Estate and COVID

San Juan Coun­ty Health & Com­mu­ni­ty Ser­vices wish­es to announce to eli­gi­ble orga­ni­za­tions the County’s inten­tion to release a Notice of Funds Avail­able (NOFA) for a 2020 fund­ing round for the Home Fund pro­gram. The Coun­ty intends to release this NOFA on July 1, 2020 with respons­es being accept­ed through August 5, 2020. Appli­ca­tions will be  Con­tin­ue Reading

Mer­ri Ann Simon­son checks in with anoth­er Real Estate tips col­umn… Do you real­ize that you may use all or a por­tion of your retire­ment funds to invest in real estate?   Retire­ment accounts are basi­cal­ly Trust accounts for your ben­e­fit when you retire.  In the 1970s, the IRS approved real estate as an invest­ment option  Con­tin­ue Reading

San Juan islanders, you are the best! The Board and Staff of the San Juan Com­mu­ni­ty Home Trust want to thank you for your great response to our recent Appeal. This was made in order to set up an Emer­gency Fund for our home own­ers, who have had hours cut back or have lost jobs  Con­tin­ue Reading

Mer­ri Ann Simon­son is back with anoth­er San Juan Island infor­ma­tion source video. This one pro­vides you with a quick real estate mar­ket update.