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Seattle Houseboats For Sale Right Now – All Offices & All Houseboat Realtors

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:00:20 +0000

Seattle Houseboats For Sale Right Now – All Offices & All Houseboat Realtors

Go ahead and browse all Seattle houseboats for sale: Vessels, barges, and Seattle floating homes for sale right now- You can find all houseboat listings from all Seattle real estate companies right now. Seattle houseboats sellers: If you have a floating home you want to sell, please let us know. We have a line of potential buyers and inventory is very low.

Seattle WA – Find Seattle Houseboats For Sale

Want to see these Seattle houseboats or need help with the process of buying a floating home (it’s a bit different)?

courtney@courtneycooper.com

206-850-8841

SeattleAfloat.com

Cooper Jacobs Real Estate LLC

Where Are The Seattle Floating Homes Located?

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:14:51 +0000

Where Are The Seattle Floating Homes Located?

It seems pretty obvious to most of us where they are, but we are local and people outside of Seattle really don’t know. Many out of state visitors come here only with the Sleepless In Seattle frame of reference for where Seattle houseboats actually are in Seattle. Any Seattle local who has seen this 1993 Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan movie (which I affectionately call the STALKER movie) knows that when Tom sets out in his little row boat from his Lake Union houseboat, he won’t end up in the Puget Sound at Alki any time soon.

This is why people want to know: Where are Seattle floating homes located in Seattle?

It is important to first know that Seattle houseboats used to be a lot more prevalent in the city even being in Lake Washington along the shores of Madison Park just to name one spot, but also along the Duwamish River down in the South Park area. Over the last 100 years they have dwindled for various reasons which is probably a good idea for me to write a series of at least 10 posts. The city has gone from thousands of floating homes and shacks to a little over 500 in present day. These 500 or so surviving Seattle floating homes (and some new construction) are located on Lake Union and Portage bay in various locations.

Here is a handy map of the Seattle Floating Homes -

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Where To Find Seattle Floating Homes in a larger map

Let me know if you are interested in checking out Seattle’s floating homes neighborhoods and learning more about the different types of dock ownerships, etc.

Courtney Cooper

Houseboat Realtor

Courtney@CooperJacobs.com 206-850-8841

Floating Home For Rent

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:38:58 +0000

Floating Home For Rent

This just in from a local floating home owner contact:

Ever wonder what it’s like living on a floating home without the committment? Darling floating home for rent right now in Portage Bay. Quaint 650 sq ft / $1250 per month. Contact me if you or someone you know is interested. Won’t last long!

Molly Cartwright, Broker

206.841.6800 or molly@cooperjacobs.com

Seattle Houseboats For Sale In The New Year

Sat, 07 Jan 2012 15:54:51 +0000

Seattle Houseboats for sale in 2012 – Happy New Year!

Seattle WA – Find Seattle Houseboats For Sale

Want to see these Seattle houseboats or need help with the process of buying a floating home (it’s a bit different)?

courtney@courtneycooper.com

206-850-8841

SeattleAfloat.com

Cooper Jacobs Real Estate LLC

Seattle Floating Homes Sales Data: 2008-2011 All Seattle Floating Homes SOLD

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:58:23 +0000

Seattle Floating Homes Sales By Year:

If you are interested in further data or more detail info, please contact: courtney@seattleafloat.com

2011 seattle floating homes sold (so far as of 12/12/2011)

2010 seattle floating homes sales

2009 seattle floating homes sold

2008 seattle floating homes

Are you interested in Seattle floating homes for sale?

Seattle houseboats Realtor:

Courtney Cooper 206.850.8841

courtney@seattleafloat.com

Lake Washington Recreational Moorage Slip

SeattleAfloat.com: Homes@SeattleAfloat.com — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 23:39:20 +0000

Lake Washington Recreational Moorage Slip

Need Seattle moorage?

We got it! Condo owned moorage leased from DNR until 2038! Spectacular slip available at the Harbour Village Marina in Kenmore. End of dock places you in the most serene spot on Lake Washington. Excellent maintained dock and association complete with metered power, laundry, shower, and restroom facilities, locked docks, pump out, dock boxes, restaurant, fuel dock and gas next door. Slip is 30×13 with 2 ft overhang.

Great recreational spot, no full time liveaboards. $65,000

Kayaking Carollers

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:35:47 +0000

Ah yes, the Kayaking Carollers are coming to town. Would you expect anything less from our lovely Lake Union Floating Home Community? So pull on those Neoprene booties, sport some jingle bells, and grab your headlamp.

Don’t miss the fun this weekend!

Friday December 2 around 6:00-8:00pm:
6:20pm – 2426 Westlake
6:40pm – 2235 Fairview Lynn Street Park ECC and the Northwest Outdoor Center are co-sponsoring this brief songfest at a much-loved park. Donations for Seattle Children’s Home will be accepted at the event.

For questions: frisky1@mindspring.com, info@eastlakeseattle.org, and 206.860.3866
7:20pm – 2207 Fairview

Saturday December 3 around 6:00- 8:00 pm.
Begins at 2017 Fairview
7:30pm — 2339 Fairview
Ends at 2331 Fairview.

For more information on and music song sheets go to Kayaking Carollers or call 206.281.9694.

More Floating homes and housebarges can be found on www.Seatteafloat.com – contact us today!

Map of Lake Union and Seattle

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 01:42:37 +0000

Map of Lake Union and Seattle

Coolest map ever! I snapped this pic from my cell phone outside the gate of 1900 Westlake Marina…which so happens to have the cutest little housebarge ever, listed with Cooper Jacobs Real Estate on Seattleafloat.com.

Seattle Floating Homes For Sale Inventory is Low

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 03:15:46 +0000

Seattle Floating Homes For Sale Inventory is Low -

The number of Seattle houseboats for sale has definitely decreased for the winter and holiday season. This is an opportunity for many Seattle floating homes owners who might want to to step into the Seattle houseboat market while the competition is low.

Seattle Floating Homes For Sale:

Currently, there are only 4 (FOUR!!!) Seattle floating homes for sale in ALL of Seattle! These range in price from $350,000 to $1,395,000. Here are some additional details:

For $350,000, you can buy a 2 bedroom/1 bath Seattle houseboat in Westlake.
For $399,000, you can buy a 1 bedroom/1 bath houseboat in Portage Bay.
For $715,000, you can buy a houseboat in Portage Bay at the end of the dock on its own dock with no dues, a waterfront bonus cabin, and a yard, and 2 parking spaces.
For $1,395,000 you can buy a 2 bedroom 2.5 bath Roanoke Reef floating home.

What’s Selling in Seattle Floating Homes?

In the last 60 days there has been 1 Seattle floating homes sale and there is 1 that is pending. The pending Seattle floating home for sale is a beauty on the Sleepless in Seattle houseboat dock in Westlake listed at $900,000. The Seattle floating home that has sold and closed in escrow is located in Eastlake at 2727 Fairview Ave E #14. It is a 1932 1 bedroom/ 1 bath Seattle houseboat with $650 square feet of living space. It was originally listed for $298,000 and sold after 57 days on the market for $238,000 – that is 79.87% of list price.

Are you interested in selling your Seattle floating home?

Just because it is late fall and the holiday season is kicking in does not mean that there are not ready, willing, and able houseboat buyers ready to purchase your home. Molly and I specialize in Seattle floating homes and we want to help you get the most possible for your investment. Right now is a very good time to try out the market with your houseboat while competition is at a minimum and buyers are still steady. Let us know if you would like a free market analysis and an idea of some of the ways we can market your floating home compared to other Realtors. We do things differently!

Courtney Cooper: 206.850.8841 courtney@cooperjacobs.com
Molly Cartwright: 206.841.6800 molly@cooperjacobs.com

Houseboat Interest Rates

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:21:46 +0000

We always have lots of interest in houseboats since Seattle has one of the largest houseboat communities. Along with a 680 credit score, you can assume to pay just about a point higher in interest rates as compared to land homes. Our friend Denise Carlson at Seattle Metropolitan Credit Union can answer most questions in regard to financing houseboats since they’re just about the only lender in town who will finance them.

For starters, today they begin at 5.625% for a primary residence. They’re usually on a 10 year balloon for a lease slip. If it’s a condo owned slip, the amoritization is different. Feel free to give me or Courtney Cooper a call / email today for more houseboat questions!