GRAND OPENING of the ANACORTES COMMUNITY GARDEN Saturday, June 6, 2009, is a big day in Anacortes: the official opening of our first public community garden: the 29th Street Community Garden at Q Avenue (just east of the San Juan Lanes bowling alley). Please join in the celebration at 11 A.M., with ribbon-cutting by [...]

The Federal Housing Administration has issued formal guidelines allowing first-time homebuyers to apply a federal tax credit of up to $8,000 toward the purchase of a home with an FHA-backed mortgage, however, the tax credit can’t be used toward FHA’s 3.5 percent minimum down-payment requirement. But the tax credit can be used as an additional down [...]

Coldwell Banker Island Living Connie is pleased to announced that Connie Moulaison has joined the elite team of Anacortes real estate agents at Coldwell Banker Island Living.   Connie is very well respected among her piers.  She is known as a hard-working, honest, personable, full time REALTOR®.  Connie provides real estate serviced in Anacortes, Guemes Island, Mount Vernon [...]

Coldwell Banker Island Living is please to announce that DAVID ELLING – REALTOR®, ASSOCIATE BROKER will be joining the number real estate company in Anacortes!   All of the real estate agents at Coldwell Banker are please to have David Elling as the commercial arm of our prestigious real estate team.  David has over 40 [...]

Come listen to the House Whisperers, your education specialists!  Join us for two FREE classes on Wednesday, May 27th. Come and learn about buying a home and the tax savings available in a class taught by Jessica Notaro of Coldwell Banker Island Living. Home staging tips for home sellers will be class taught by Jean Groesbeck [...]

From the Skagit County Website WSU Know and Grow Workshop: Drip Irrigation for the Home Gardener WSU Skagit County Extension Master Gardeners in partnership with WSU – Mount Vernon NWREC present a Know & Grow workshop, Drip Irrigation for the Home Gardener Tuesday, May 26, 1:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. at WSU Mount Vernon NWREC, [...]

The Anacortes Waterfront Festival was a huge success and we had a lot of fun at the Coldwell Banker Island Living booth.  We already blogged on how much we enjoyed connecting with clients and friends, but we need to add a post script to that blog. Paul Schwulst, local Anacortes architect, send us some precious photos [...]

The Anacortes Waterfront Festival was a huge success! The festival was well attended and the weather was perfect!  Lots of boats were built, faces painted, and cotton candy consumed!  Strandberg Construction won the boat race hands down! Thank you to everyone who came by the Coldwell Banker Island Living booth.  The water we gave away and sunscreen [...]

  Come listen to the House Whisperers, your education specialists!  Join us for two FREE classes on Wednesday, May 27th. Come and learn about buying a home and the tax savings available in a class taught by Jessica Notaro of Coldwell Banker Island Living. Home staging tips for home sellers will be class taught by Jean [...]

RISMEDIA, May 18, 2009-Historically high housing affordability and low mortgage interest rates, combined with buyer opportunities in the distressed sales market, have increased home sales in many areas of the country. “There has never been a better time to buy,” said National Association of Realtors Chief Economist Lawrence Yun, who presented NAR’s economic outlook at [...]