Sunday Times Snippets
Spotlight on Queen Anne:
Single-family houses and condominiums in the area that includes Queen Anne had a median price of $483,000 in June, up 13.7 percent over the past year, according to the Northwest Multiple Listing Service.
A friend of my regularly rents art work from the Seattle Art Museum, and it seems home sellers and stagers are too:
Museum officials say they’ve seen a spike in their art-rental business thanks in part to home stagers, who redecorate houses in hopes of boosting sales prices and increasing the odds of selling.
The Farm Bureau sponsored property-rights initiative I-933 is going at it alone:
powerful allies from 1995 either are sitting on the fence, decided to remain neutral or have embraced Initiative 933 only half-heartedly
First Methodist Church on 5th Avenue gets a reprive:
Church leaders have turned their focus to another local developer, Nitze-Stagen, which would build a thinner tower leaving room for the 1910 church featuring a red-tiled dome, brick walls and stained glass.
Another ornate church on Capitol Hill is getting a new life as upscale condominium homes.
