As we do each week in happy collaboration with My Green Lake, we present you here with a map of all the garage sales and open houses around our mutual neighborhoods this weekend: View Wallingford / Green Lake Garage Sales & Open Houses in a larger map This week's Pick o' the Week is 2312 46th St, which provides an inventory of items in painstaking detail, including an "oil filled radiator" (we would have thought of a more appetizing way of…
We're very happy to welcome a new sponsor to Wallyhood, the fine folks over at Pangaea Organica, roasting artisan, fair trade coffee right in Wallingford. The second best thing about Pangaea is that they will actually deliver the coffee to your door within a day of it being roasted if you live in Wallingford (or nearby). That is fresh and local! Click their logo to the right for more info. The first best part about Pangaea is that they are donating…
James Hua of of Seattle Real Estate sent us some interesting facts about the real estate situation in Wallingford: The median price for homes sold in King County is $380,000 in August. Meanwhile, properties in Wallingford aren’t nearly as affordable, with a median price for Single Family Residential (SFR’s) 18% higher, at $447,000. Even so they move much faster, with average days on market at 16 compared to King County's 43. It's no surprise that Wallingford's home prices tend to be…
Readers may remember that the Shalom House, the Jewish home for the cognitively disabled in Wallingford, closed its doors this past January and the house was put up for sale. Unfortunately, the building had been modified over the years in a somewhat institutional fashion, with odd additions and the upstairs cut up into many tiny rooms, some with linoleum floors. It didn't sell. Instead, it's become a rental house, and the neighborhood gossip is that the residents are feisty bunch of…
Every couple of weeks, we thank the local businesses that have offered their support to Wallyhood: Find A Dog Walker: Despite it's name, this matchmaking service won't just help you find someone to keep Fido's legs stretched and healthy, they also help find pet sitters and the like. It's a nation-wide service, but founded and run out of our own 'hood. Fuerte Fitness: This is a both a small gym and personal training studio, right off the corner of 45th and…
It sometimes seems like the folks in Wallingford regard real estate like others regard baseball: whether or not you play, it's fun to keep an eye on the deals, the stats and the intrigue. Given that, it's appropriate that we're able to welcome a real estate broker, Cooper Jacobs, as our newest sponsor. Courtney Cooper has been in real estate for going on 10 years: the first 7 with Windermere before she decided to open her own company (along with her…