Leavenworth Real Estate Blog

My father drove a snow plow for the State Highway Department for over thirty years right here in Leavenworth. He saw some amazing things in those years, some of which he shared with me. I will share some of those stories with you perhaps but not today. I only mention the highway department to tell you about George VanBrocklyn. George was an old timer by anybody’s frame of reference and the lead man at the highway department. His lower lip seemed to  protrude in a way that always made him appear to be casually but completely satisfied. In the conversation I had with him about fifteen years ago when he was around ninety, he told me a story about when he was a young man and he and his father  bought four hundred acres just southeast of Leavenworth in the East Leavenworth area of the valley. He said they bought it to run some dairy cows on and became the laughing stock of town because they paid an astronomical fifty cents per acre for it. He said they ran cows on it for a few years and then decided to sell the property. When they did they had instant redemption and the last laugh all in one fell swoop. “We showed em,” he said “we got a dollar an acre!” When he was telling me that story, of course, he was aware that the value of those very acres was in the vicinity of seventy five thousand per acre. Now, fifteen years later, it is worth more than twice that. Hindsight, it is said, is always twenty twenty. One thing I have learned over the past twenty five plus years in this business (that would be Prudential Mike West Real Estate of course) is that those trends of increasing values has not changed in this area. Not only does Leavenworthhave little private property compared to all the federal ownership surrounding it, but lots of the private land is steep hillside. The result is precious little level or even buildable property available at any one time. That makes the special parcels all the more valuable and all the better an investment potential. You might like to own something as special as Leavenworth area real estate. If so, give us a holler. We are the consummate pros in the Leavenworth area and have the very best the market has to offer. Our main website is Prudential Mike West Real Estate .com. You can look at pictures of most of our gems and see if anything strikes your fancy. George made a shrewd investment here, maybe you can too!