Sunday, November 2, 2008

Sable Ridge

Sable Ridge built by John F Buchan Homes

  • Price range: 900s
  • Construction type: SFH
  • Square footage: 3000s

MLS Listings

This is the third of the new Buchan communities up in the 116th St neighbourhood that has undergone so much development in the past few years. This development is tucked up behind Northstar on NE 120th St.

I have driven past these houses but have not seen in them or behind them, but the listings show them to be very similar to their other Buchan cousins.

Evergreen Lane

Evergreen Lane built by CamWest

  • Price range: 600s - 800s
  • Construction type: SFH
  • Square footage: 2000s

MLS Listings

This new development is near Microsoft and Grasslawn Park off of 148th Ave NE, and so is very attractive to folks working in that area (such as myself), of which there is no shortage of.

Considering the location and the nice greenbelts nearby I should go over there and pay a visit at some time. This is a very nice neighbourhood and will have a good commute.

Perrigo Heights

Perrigo Heights built by CamWest

  • Price range: 700s
  • Construction type: SFH
  • Square footage: Unknown

I saw this on the CamWest website but there is not much more information other than 'coming soon' and the start price for the houses. They sound like big houses with 4 - 6 bedrooms, and the schools that they mention make me think that they will be up on education hill somewhere.

The Woodlands

The Woodlands built by CamWest

  • Price range: 600s - 700s
  • Construction type: SFH
  • Square footage: 2000s - 3000s

MLS Listings

This development, up on 116th along with many of the other new communities in Redmond, has been under construction for quite some time now. I toured this back in 2006 when I was looking around for a house and I remember being very impressed with the bathroom in the model.

Listings for this development I have found mainly through some redfin updates that I have sent to me from their site, since the maps don't have these streets where this is built yet.

New CMS for the blog

I spent a couple of days writing a small WPF based app to serve as my CMS and database in one. Basically, it is like a small application with a sheet of developers, developments and listings that does some relational database work for me and makes it easy to generate posts for developments and update them later when stuff changes, like new listings come on.

The last couple of postings (Whistler's Ridge and Tyler's Creek) were generated with the new system. Things are still a little slow because I am still tweaking my application, but I am confident that the next few updates will be very quick.

Tyler's Creek

Tyler's Creek built by CamWest

  • Price range: 500s - 700s
  • Construction type: SFH
  • Square footage: 2000s - 3000s

MLS Listings

CamWest started this project up on Education Hill fairly recently, but I have not had a chance to see this in person yet.

Whistler's Ridge

Whistler's Ridge built by John F Buchan Homes

  • Price range: 800s - 900s
  • Construction type: SFH
  • Square footage: 3000s

MLS Listings

This is another of the Buchan developments up on Education hill that has been built in the past few years.

There are a good range of sizes of house up there, and there are still some being constructed desite already feeling like a mature community.