Green Real Estate
OK, chances are you’re not a member of the aviation community, and that’s OK! Neither am I. Just add -airstrip to your text search to subtract all properties that have an airstrip from your search!
Maybe you’re a green-minded individual that doesn’t like burning jet fuel in our beautiful Northwest atmosphere. Estately can help you out, too. If you’re looking for a home that’s LEED certified (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) as being green, simply do a Text Search for “LEED”. If you’re a fan of that bright glowing ball of fire in the sky that most of us call “sun,” try doing a text search for “solar” to aid in your search for either solar-equipped or solar-ready homes.
As you can see, our Text Search can help you zero-in on that home you’re looking for, no matter how specific your needs are (ever dreamed of having a dumbwaiter? Neither have I…).
Have any cool or interesting Text Searches that you use? Share ‘em with us!
Join the discussion »It’s All About the Extras
Sometimes, it’s not about the choice of schools nearby, or how close major lines of mass transit are (a bit more on that early next week), and sometimes it’s not even about being a couple blocks away from a good coffee shop (although, admittedly, sometimes it really is about that).
No, sometimes it’s all about the extras (Google agrees with me a half million times). Sometimes, it’s about owning a home with an airstrip! That’s right, you read correctly. An airstrip. At the time of posting, Estately has 50 properties for sale throughout Washington and Oregon that have an airstrip, starting at a mere $160k (you can perform this search yourself by doing a Text Search for “airstrip”). Now you, too, can own a home with airstrip, without paying that airstrip premium. The money you save can easily go toward filling up the ol’ Cessna.
Estately can help you find some real gems. You just have to look.
Join the discussion »- May 1st, 2008
- by Galen
- real estate
I hate golf as much as the next guy
And until I belatedly read the the New York Times bit on golf, I thought the next guy still liked golf.
If you are the rebel who still golfs, the golfer who subscribes to GolfPunk magazine, full text will help you find a home on a golf course: A quick search of the greater Seattle area shows about 400 homes advertising proximity to golf courses. (check it out – it’s a funny clustering of homes by the area’s golf courses).
My preferred search is “-golf“, which eliminates those 400 homes from the search and means I can get more non-golf home for my money.
Join the discussion »- November 16th, 2007
- by Galen
- Maps, Neighborhoods
Where do Seattle’s neighborhood names come from
Marketers and developers – the same place as nearly any other young city. I like the concept that even the oldest and hoity-toitiest Seattle neighborhood names come from developers:
But even Seattle’s crunchiest neighborhood got its name from land developers, who named it after their hometown in Fremont, Neb.
Capitol Hill owes its name to turn-of-the-century superdeveloper James Moore, who bought property and persuaded a state legislator to introduce a bill to move the state capital there.
“It was really just a real estate promotion,” said Seattle historian Paul Dorpat. “There was no chance in hell they would do that … but he knew he could get publicity.”
Another name that stuck first appeared in a Seattle Weekly article in the late 1980s about how the industrial area south of downtown was changing with new businesses and artists moving in. Editor Rose Pike suggested the name Sodo for SOuth of the soon-to-be-blown-up KingDOme.
The name really caught on after developer Frank Stagen erected red neon signs on top of the area’s huge Sears building — until Starbucks replaced them with its mermaid.
I personally like descriptive, genuinely bottom up names like “Pill Hill” (aka “first hill”), “Frelard” (Between Ballard and Fremont), and the Denny Regrade (the area where they dragged tons of dirt from the top of Denny St. its base, thus regrading it).
A quick check using our text search shows no one (not a soul!) advertising a “West Edge,” “Park District,” or “Midtown” property. Maybe the Park District developer should learn from history and get his state legislator to promote a resolution to move Olympic National Park to North of downtown.
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