BTB Real Estate Sponsor Prudential Northwest’s Open House for this week is an impeccable West Seattle Craftsman built in 2005, like new inside and out.

Steps to Lincoln Park and located on a dead-end street, this gorgeous home has Olympic, Sound and territorial views with amazing sunsets!

There’s also a huge Chef’s kitchen with granite counters and family room, plus formal dining room, outstanding Master bedroom with fireplace and beautiful bathroom and much more!

Here are the details:

WHEN: Sunday, Feb. 12th, from 1pm – 5pm.

WHERE: 7808 45th Ave SW, West Seattle, WA 98136

INFO:

• List Price: $647,000
• Listing #: 288304
• Beds: 4
• Baths: 2.5
• Year Built: 2005
• Approximate House SqFt: 3,600
• Lot Square Footage: 7,500

Interior Features:

• Bath Off Master
• Built-In Vacuum
• Dble Pane/Strm Windw
• Dining Room
• Fireplace in Mstr BR
• High Tech Cabling
• Security System
• Skylights
• Pantry
• Walk-in Closet

Marketing Remarks:

Impeccable Craftsman built in 2005, like new inside & out.

Steps to Lincoln Park & located on a dead end street.

Olympic, sound & territorial views w/amazing sunsets! Mezzanine formal entry, open floor plan great for entertaining.

Tall ceilings w/high end finishes throughout.

3 frplcs, Brazilian Cherry flrs.

Huge Chefs kitchen w/granite counters & family rm plus formal dining rm.

Outstanding mstr bdrm w/frplc & beautiful 5 pc bthrm.

Decks, ex finished rm, 3 car garage.

Click here to see the full, detailed listing.

Click here to view all of Prudential Northwest’s Open Houses.

BTB Real Estate Sponsor Prudential Northwest’s Open House for this week is a brick basement rambler in Shorewood, just waiting to be made beautiful again and at a reduced price!

Daylight basement, carport, large lot and great location.

And it’s got a little Sound view too!

Here are the details:

WHEN: Sunday, Feb. 5th, from 1pm – 4pm.

WHERE: 11825 26th Ave SW, West Seattle, WA 98146

INFO:

• List Price: $299,500
• Listing #: 292562
• Beds: 3
• Baths: 2
• Year Built: 1952
• Approximate House SqFt: 2,060
• Lot Square Footage: 10,950

Interior Features:

• Hardwood Floors
• Carport-attached
• 2 Fireplaces

Marketing Remarks:

Brick basement rambler in Shorewood just waiting to be made beautiful again!

Daylight basement, carport, large lot and great location.

A little Sound View too!

Click here to see the full, detailed listing.

Click here to view all of Prudential Northwest’s Open Houses.

Tay has been a licensed Broker with Prudential’s West Seattle Branch for over 10 years.

He recently moved his family to Normandy Park and his office to the Burien Prudential Branch.

Tay attended Highline High School and graduated from the University of Washington.

When asked what he likes best about the move, Tay said:

”The wonderful sense of community here.

I am looking forward to assisting the south Seattle area with all their real estate needs”

For more information on Prudential Northwest Realty, click here.

BTB Real Estate Sponsor Prudential Northwest’s Open House for this week is a spotless late 50s home with three bedrooms.

The kitchen has all built-ins, living room has a cozy fireplace, dining area with sliders to large covered deck, picturesque yard with lawn & garden sheds.

The basement offers a rec room with fireplace, bar, a safe, 3/4 bath, utility room, storage and garage wired for welding.

Home has A/C throughout.

Parking for trailer or RV.

Here are the details:

WHEN: Sunday, Jan. 15th from 1pm – 4pm.

WHERE: 16259 14th Ave SW, Burien, WA 98166.

INFO:

• List Price: $285,000
• Listing #: 281085
• Beds: 3

• Baths: 1.75
• Year Built: 1959
• Approximate House SqFt: 1,7700
• Lot Square Footage: 10,795

Site Features:

• Cable TV
• Deck
• Fenced-Fully

• Gas Available
• Outbuildings
• Patio

Marketing Remarks:

Spotless late 50s home features 3 bdrms, kitchen w/all built-ins, liv rm w/cozy frplc, dining area w/sliders to large covered deck, picturesque yard w/lawn & garden sheds.

Bsmt offers rec room w/frplc, bar, 3/4 bath, utility rm, storage and garage wired for welding.

Home has A/C throughout.

Parking for trailer or RV.

Safe in rec room stays.

Click here to see the full, detailed listing.

Click here to view all of Prudential Northwest’s Open Houses.

BTB Real Estate Sponsor Prudential Northwest’s Open House for this week is a 4-bedroom, 1920 storybook bungalow set in a serene and private setting with a panoramic Sound & Mountain view.

This is a very unique house with a stained glass window in the entry from a Seattle church, re-purposed columns from a 1900s farm house and built-ins that add a note of elegance to everyday dining.

Sweeping circular driveway, architecturally pleasing carport and plenty of garden spots.

Here are the details:

WHEN: Sunday, Jan. 8th, from 1pm – 4pm.

WHERE: 15204 27th Ave SW, Burien, WA 98166

INFO:

• List Price: $349,950
• Listing #: 306898
• Beds: 4
• Baths: 1.75

• Year Built: 1920
• Approximate House SqFt: 1,880
• Lot Square Footage: 15,100

Site Features:

• Dining Room Skylights
• Cable TV
• Fenced-Partially
• RV Parking

Marketing Remarks:

A 1920 storybook bungalow set in a serene and private setting with a panoramic Sound & Mountain view.

Very unique house with a stained glass window in the entry from a Seattle church, re-purposed columns from a 1900s farm house and built-ins that add a note of elegance to everyday dining.

Sweeping circular driveway, architecturally pleasing carport and plenty of garden spots.

Home features 4 bdr.,13/4 baths, formal dining and L/R w/ frpl.

The bones are there, needs some restoration & updating.

Click here to see the full, detailed listing.

Click here to view all of Prudential Northwest’s Open Houses.

BTB Real Estate Partner Prudential Northwest Realty would like to congratulate Stuart Steadman, honored as its ‘Top Producing Real Estate Broker’ for 2011.

Steadman was also honored in 2008, 2009 and 2010, and once again this year!

“Stuart has been a real estate broker since 1999,” said Broker/Branch Manager Lori Alden. “He prides himself on helping others achieve their real estate goals. Whether buying or selling Stuart can help with all your real estate needs. Thank you for your dedication Stuart!”

To see all the latest listings on local homes, as well as Open Houses, click here.

Please welcome back Advertisers Chuck and Lisa Tuman to The B-Town Blog, two local real estate agents and great community-minded people who work out of the Burien Windermere office!

As we do with all our Advertisers, we provide a forum for them to share their thoughts:

We believe that the real estate market is turning the corner and that 2012 will be much better for sellers as prices are stabilizing and still very attractive for new buyers as interest rates are projected to stay at historically low levels.

We also believe that our local communities are going to begin thriving once again because the major economic drivers (read major employers like Boeing, Starbucks, Amazon, Microsoft, etc.) are continuing to do more hiring with great family living wages.

We will continue to support our communities and schools through our membership in the Highline Schools Foundation and the work done to provide grants to teachers and schools and scholarships to needy students. We love activities that help to involve the larger community like the Brat Trot and the upcoming Cove to Clover. Volunteering to help make those events successful is very important for us.

We would love to help with your real estate needs. A quick email can start the conversation: chucktuman@windermere.com.

The Tumans are retired school administrators from the Highline School District who have remained active in the community as trustees of the Highline Schools Foundation for Excellence and devoted many hours to community activitiesto benefit other local organizations. They love to help clients realize their dream of buying a home (and sometimes the dream of selling one). They love the business and truly enjoy working with folks of all ages.

Lisa and Chuck Tuman at a recent Highline Schools Foundation Oktoberfest fundraiser, which they helped organize.

Here’s more about the Tumans:

Professional Integrity:
After 40 years of combined experience educating the children of this community, we demonstrate the same caring and professional integrity in the real estate market. We don’t sell ‘real estate,’ we help people realize their dreams about homes. We will educate you through every step of the purchase or sale of your home.

Communication:
We communicate regularly and in a variety of manners. We relentlessly provide service. There is no job too big or too small for us. Our honesty and dedication will be evident to you as you reach your goals.

Expert Representation:
Real Estate transactions require effective negotiation skills. We work for mutual agreement and satisfaction for everyone involved. We diligently represent and protect your interests. For four years in a row we have been selected as “Five Star Realtors” by Seattle Magazine. We believe we earned that honor.

Knowledge of Our Area:
We have extensive personal knowledge of the recreational areas, neighborhoods, schools and businesses in Greater Seattle. We are excited about the revitalization in our communities. Let us help you get acquainted with the rich diversity and marvelous opportunities in our area.

To learn more about Lisa and Chuck Tuman, check out their website: http://www.tumanhomes.com.

by Ralph Nichols

Condo sales have resumed at Burien Town Square.

The sales, which began in October, are the first since ST Residential became owner of the seven-story condominium/retail complex with 124 residential units.

They are also the first since building developer Urban Partners was forced to suspend sales in 2009 when the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) shut down the bank holding their construction loan.

“Since re-launching sales at Burien Town Square in October, we are pleased to report that there have been 11 contracts executed, of which five are with buyers who previously had pre-sale contracts in place,” Peter Marino, spokesman for ST Residential, told The B-Town Blog.

“We have closed three of the 11 contracts at this point,” Marino noted.

“Throughout the country, sales traffic typically slows down during the holiday season and in the early winter months,” he continued.

“We are encouraged by the response and interest in Burien Town Square. We look forward to a strong year of sales in 2012, but we don’t anticipate sales traffic to really pick up until late winter or early spring.”

These new sales are “good news” for the city, said Burien Economic Development Manager Dan Trimble. “I think it will help move completion of the Town Square project forward.”

The second and third phases of Town Square remain undeveloped. Urban Partners owns both parcels, located north of the condo/retail complex and the Library/City Hall building.

Urban Partners has until late January to submit plans for phase two development to the city.

“The other impact” of renewed condo sales “is that merchants on 152nd and 153rd streets and elsewhere downtown will have more customers,” Trimble added.

“That was one of the intentions” for the Town Square project. Merchants and restaurants “have been very patient and hopefully they will see that pay off.”

Only six condos in the complex, which includes 20,000 square feet of still-vacant ground-floor retail space, were sold before sales were halted in 2009.

The resumption of condo sales is ST Residential’s primary focus. The investment group has yet to announce leases of retail space.

In August, David Ploger, first vice president of ST Residential, told Burien City Council members that, even with lingering uncertainties in the housing market, they hoped to have a public launch of condo sales before year’s end.

Expressing confidence at that time in the marketability of the condos, Ploger described them as “very efficient. The floor plans are state of the art. I’ve looked around and I’m not aware of a better condominium complex in the South Seattle area.”

But to help move sales, he also said then that ST Residential would respond to market conditions by lowering condo prices well below the original 2009 prices.

Construction of the Town Square complex, then owned by Urban Partners, the city’s private developer for the project, was completed in June 2009.

But that September, condo sales were halted when the FDIC closed Corus Bank, which had financed construction of the building with a $38.5 million loan.

After the FDIC seized the bank’s assets, including Urban Partners’ loan, ST Residential became holder of its residential construction loan portfolio.

ST Residential is comprised of the FDIC, which holds a 60 percent share of that portfolio, and Starwood Capital Group and four other several private investors.

Urban Partners eventually transferred ownership of the condo/retail complex – avoiding a trustee’s sale of this property, which was in foreclosure – to ST Residential. The FDIC earlier had rejected an offer by Urban Partners to buy back its construction loan.

Urban Partners has since been waiting until after ST Residential resumed condo sales to propose a development plan for phase two of the Town Square project.

Read more of our extensive coverage of Burien Town Square here.

BTB Real Estate Sponsor Prudential Northwest’s Open House for this week is a large and beautiful home with lots of space, with the price reduced to $324,000!

The home has 2,130 square feet of finished living space with 4 bedrooms all on one floor and 2.5 bathrooms.

There is a 3-car garage and an additional 1,070 square feet of partially finished basement space to finish how you like.

This 3,200 square foot home has been recently painted throughout and new carpeting has been installed ready for you to move right in.

The home is close to Downtown Burien with easy access to Downtown Seattle, Sea-Tac Airport, I-5 and I-405.

Here are the details:

WHEN: Sunday, Dec. 11th, from 1pm – 4pm.

WHERE: 14239 4th Ave South, Burien, WA 98168

INFO:

• List Price: $324,000
• Listing #: 300641
• Beds: 4
• Baths: 2.5
• Year Built: 1998
• Approximate House SqFt: 3,200
• Lot Square Footage: 7,337

Site Features:

• Bath Off Master
• Dble Pane/Strm Windw
• Dining Room
• Vaulted Ceilings
• Walk-in Closet
• Deck
• Fenced-Partially
• Gas Available

Marketing Remarks:

This is a large and beautiful home with lots of space.

The home has 2130 sq feet of finished living space with 4 bedrooms all on one floor and 2.5 bathrooms.

There is a 3 car garage and an additional 1070 of partially finished basement space to finish how you like (3200 sq foot home).

It has been recently painted throughout and new carpeting has been installed ready for you to move right in.

The home is close to Downtown Burien with easy access to Downtown Seattle, Sea-Tac Airport, I-5 and I-405.

Click here to see the full, detailed listing.

Click here to view all of Prudential Northwest’s Open Houses.

However, for all of Prudential’s more than 600 affiliates operating across North America and their clients, the news means “business as usual,” since affiliates will continue using the Prudential brand based on the terms of their franchise agreements. The expanded scale of the combined businesses will ensure that the network remains at the forefront of the industry, positioned with leading-edge tools and technologies to best serve their clients.

“We are thrilled to join Brookfield, a leader in residential real estate franchising and employee relocation services and a brand name that is synonymous with strength, stability and growth,” said Mike Gain, CEO of Prudential Northwest Realty Associates. “Locally, Prudential Northwest is still the same great company, providing the same great service to homebuyers and sellers.”

We look forward to continuing our relationship with Prudential Northwest’s Burien office, and appreciate their supporting B-Town’s first and best blog!

Be sure to check out their Real Estate section here, along with their weekly Open House listings, posted every Friday.

Here’s more from a press release:

The addition establishes Brookfield as North America’s third largest residential real estate brokerage business and the world’s second largest global relocation services provider.

Through its various brands, Brookfield’s residential real estate franchisees are now present in all 50 U.S. states, 10 Canadian provinces, Mexico and Portugal, with a network of approximately 80,000 real estate agents, 2,800 real estate brokerage locations and more than $150 billion in annual residential real estate transactions.

Brookfield’s parent company, Brookfield Asset Management, is a global asset manager with approximately $150 billion in assets under management. Brookfield is co?listed on the New York and Toronto Stock Exchanges under the symbol BAM and on NYSE Euronext under the symbol BAMA.

About Brookfield Residential Property Services
Brookfield Residential Property Services is a leading global provider of real estate and relocation services, analytics and knowledge. The company’s portfolio consists of leading brands, including Brookfield Global Relocation Services, the second largest provider of global relocation services, Prudential Real Estate and Relocation Services, Brookfield Real Estate Services, Royal LePage, Real Living, Via Capitale and Centract. Through its real estate brands, it has nearly 80,000 real estate professionals in more than 2,800 locations, who transact over $150 billion annually. Its global footprint spans North America, the United Kingdom, France, China, Singapore, India, Brazil and Australia, and includes more than 2,500 employees worldwide. It is a division of Brookfield Asset Management, a global asset manager with approximately $150 billion of assets under management.

About Prudential Real Estate and Relocation Services
Prudential Real Estate and Relocation Services is a leading real estate brokerage franchise and relocation services business. Prudential Real Estate is one of the largest real estate brokerage franchise networks in North America, with more than 1,600 franchise offices in its Network. Prudential Real Estate franchises are independently owned and operated companies selected based upon outstanding performance records, high levels of customer service and business values. Prudential Relocation Services is a leading provider of global relocation services to Fortune 500 corporations. With locations in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Hong Kong, Singapore and China, Prudential Relocation – which operates as Pricoa Relocation in Asia and Europe – offers a comprehensive suite of services to its worldwide clients and their transferees.