SEATTLE NEIGHBORHOODS: Broadview
Welcome to your guide to the Broadview neighborhood, Seattle and Broadview real estate where you can search for Broadview houses, Broadview condos and Broadview townhomes using an easy to use interactive map.
If you are looking for a neighborhood that, with the exception of Greenwood Avenue on its eastern border, has remained relatively unaffected by Seattle’s recent condo and townhome building explosion, then Broadview is the place for you. It has loads of trees and not very many sidewalks. The homes overlooking the water are modestly low so that their neighbors behind can share the great views. It’s all very civilized in a good way.
If you live in Seattle, you rarely hear of anything news shattering emanating form Broadview. Similar to the amount of news we get regarding Canada despite the fact that it’s just up the road, which is no fault of the Canadians! I’m sure the residents of Broadview wouldn’t have it any other way.
Starting in 1930, and for the next 31 years, Playland opened close by on the shores of Bitter Lake and was Seattle’s only amusement park. Depression era residents from north and south could go there and throw their cares away for a day. The biggest attraction was the 4300 foot long Dipper roller coaster which climbed to a height of 70 feet. The park was Broadview’s main identity until the late1950 when cars became more affordable and people could go elsewhere for their entertainment. Playland closed in 1961, the year before the World’s Fair would be held at the Seattle Center and which was scheduled to have its own bigger and better amusement park.
Broadway sits on top of a bluff and takes its name from the expansive and beautiful views of the Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountains lying the west. It’s a great place to watch spectacular sunsets over the mountains. Broadview is located at the NW end of Seattle’s city limits before you cross into the city of Shoreline to the north. To the south lies Carkeek Park, North Beach and Ballard, with Bitter Lake to the east. Although Broadview is located at the northern end of Seattle’s city limits, it is only about a 15 – 20mins drive to downtown via Aurora Avenue.
Carkeek Park is a local favorite, offering green space for outdoor activities and access to a beach via a footbridge over the BNSF railway tracks that run at the bottom of the bluff. Originally, Magnuson Park at Sand Point was called Carkeek, in honor of Morgan J. Carkeek, a prominent Seattle developer and builder. When the original park was displaced by a Naval Air Station, Carkeek gave the proceeds of the sale to the city to go buy a new park. Hence the switch from the shores of Lake Washington to the shores of the sound.
BROADVIEW REAL ESTATE
Almost all of the condos and townhomes in Broadview are restricted to Greenwood Avenue which separates the neighborhood form Seattle’s Bitter Lake neighborhood. West of Greenwood Ave, the vast majority of Broadview properties are single family homes. There are some lovely classic old homes in this area with many Cape Code style properties. Other architectural styles include ramblers, Tudor, craftsman, bungalows with relatively few contemporary style houses. Properties with a view will obviously be the most expensive, but only one home over the past year has sold for close to a million. There are good opportunities for first time buyers to buy a single family home in this part of Seattle and get to live in one of the area’s more relaxed neighborhoods with quick access to downtown.
What’s the Broadview real estate market doing?
Real estate statistics for Broadview houses and Broadview condos.
For an explanation of how these numbers are generated, please click here. Note that graphs and tables were generated by crunching data from the North West Multiple Listing Service (NWMLS). Data is updated every two months and was last updated at the start of August 2011.
Please click on the slideshow to view sales statistics.
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