The following is a list of recent commercial and high-end residential property sales in Whatcom County. Top properties is compiled by Wendy Darling, with assistance from the county treasurer’s and assessor’s offices.
Residences Above $700,000
Seller: Douglas and Dian Lieberman
Buyer: Paul and Ann Hanson
Description: Condo with 1,800 square feet, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, built in 1996, detached garage; marine view.
Address: #201, Westwater Luxury Condominiums, 480 South State St., Bellingham
Price: $725,000
Date: 06/28/07
Seller: Nathan Jackson and Bastion Development, Inc.
Buyer: Richard and Mary Harbison
Description: 2 -story house with 3,031 square feet, 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, built in 2006, 542 square foot built-in garage.
Address: 1011 and 1015 Brookings Place, Bellingham
Price: $835,000
Date: 06/29/07
Seller: Ildiko Wainwright
Buyer: Samuel Chung (Beverley Hills, CA)
Description: 1 -story house with 2,414 square feet, 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, built in 1976, 1,293 square foot patio, 106 feet waterfront, 106 feet tideland; marine and territorial view.
Address: 1755 Edwards Drive, Point Roberts, WA
Price: $1,300,000
Date: 07/02/07
Seller: Kurt and Lydia Scherer
Buyer: John and Kristine Norton
Description: 2 -story house with 3,224 square feet, 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, built in 2004, remodeled in 2005, 576 square foot attached garage, 528 square foot shop, 5.00 acres wooded land.
Address: 1276 Van Wyck Road, Bellingham
Price: $845,000
Date: 07/02/07
Seller: William and Dana McCarthey
Buyer: Philip Walden and Cathryn Walden Moody (Menlo Park, CA)
Description: 2 -story house with 3,841 square feet, 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, built in 1996, 874 square foot attached garage, 1,540 square foot patio, 1.15 acres land.
Address: 632 Linden Road, Bellingham
Price: $1,100,000
Date: 07/02/07
Seller: Carl and Diane Dufton
Buyer: Timothy and Jennifer Acton
Description: 2 –story condo with 1,523 square feet, 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, built in 1986; marine view.
Address: #13 E, Beachwalker Villas, 9499 Semiahmoo Parkway, Blaine
Price: $805,000
Date: 07/03/07
Seller: Philip and Linda Magruder
Buyer: Gary and Louise Bullis (Revo, NV)
Description: 1 -story house with 862 square feet, 782 square foot finished basement, 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, built in 1988, 500 square foot carport, 596 square foot deck; marine view.
Address: 1307 Chuckanut Drive, Bellingham
Price: $849,000
Date: 07/05/07
Seller: Jamie and Arlene Cano
Buyer: Dennis and Peggy Bainbridge
Description: 2 -story house with 3,870 square feet, 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, built in 2002, 750 square foot attached garage, 13.14 acres wooded land; marine and territorial view.
Address: 2430 Northshore Drive, Bellingham
Price: $750,000
Date: 07/06/07
Seller: Patrick and Sandra Soll
Buyer: Dwight and Kathy Drake
Description: 2-story condo with 2,884 square feet, 2 bedrooms, 3 baths, built in 2001, 1,375 square foot built-in garage; marine and territorial view.
Address: Unit #7, The Aerie at Semiahmoo Condominium, 9146 Aerie Lane, Blaine
Price: $1,250,000
Date: 07/09/07
Seller: Gene and Francoise Dunlap
Buyer: Alan Anders
Description: 2 -story house with 4,813 square feet, 4 bedrooms, 4 baths, built in 2001, 633 square foot attached garage, 300 square foot detached garage, 1,000 square foot deck, 1.33 acres land; marine view.
Address: 1156 Brighton Crest, Bellingham
Price: $1,735,000
Date: 07/09/07
Seller: Bushey Homes, Inc.
Buyer: Denise and Contantine Macris (Mt. Vernon, WA)
Description: New house with 132 feet shorefront, beach access and marine view.
Address: 7159 Wiser Shore Lane, Lynden
Price: $1,000,000
Date: 07/13/07
Seller: Allan and Marilyn Veto
Buyer: Noel and Barbara Wien (Eastsound, WA)
Description: 1 – story house with 1,990 square feet, 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, built in 1993, 696 square foot attached garage, 968 square foot deck 1,656 square foot patio, 64 feet shorefront, 64 feet tideland; marine view.
Address: 2478 Northshore Road, Bellingham
Price: $957,000
Date: 07/16/07
Seller: Chet and Lynette Kenoyer
Buyer: Robert Brunkow and Caroline Marston (Friday Harbor, WA)
Description: Condo with 2,125 square feet, 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, built in 2006, built-in garage; marine view.
Address: #104, Tenth & Taylor Condominium, 807 Tenth St., Bellingham
Price: $900,000
Date: 07/17/07
Seller: Norman and Ginger Pennington
Buyer: Robert and Jane Simica
Description: 2 -story house with 3,216 square feet, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, built in 2006, 816 square foot attached garage; marine and territorial view.
Address: 4954 Pennington Way, Bellingham
Price: $855,000
Date: 07/17/07
Seller: Pearl Limbacher
Buyer: David and Kathryn Edelstein
Description: 1 – and a half story house with 1,560 square feet, 3 bedrooms, 1 bath, built in 1907, 6.77 acres land (some wetlands).
Address: 2615 40th St., Bellingham
Price: $900,000
Date: 07/19/07
Seller: Paul and Christine Kenner
Buyer: Rodney and Darlene Erickson
Description: 1 -story house with 2,170 square feet, 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, built in 1977, remodeled in 2000, 460 square foot detached garage, beach access; marine and territorial view.
Address: 5525 Haida Way, Blaine
Price: $1,400,000
Date: 07/27/07
Seller: John Armstrong III and Eris Armstrong
Buyer: Theodore and Sandra Bargen
Description: 2 -story house with 3,150 square feet, 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, built in 1998, 812 square foot attached garage, 1,406 square foot patio, 168 feet shorefront; marine view.
Address: 3856 South Bay Drive, Sedro-Woolley
Price: $1,500,000
Date: 07/27/07
Residential Land
Seller: Irving Hawley and Joan Fagginger-Auer Hawley
Buyer: Cypress Venture, LLC
Description: 18 lots – marine and territorial views.
Address: Foxglove Lane, Bellingham
Price: $224,387
Date: 06/18/07
Seller: Greenland Group, LLC
Buyer: Pacific International Mortgage, Inc. (Kirkland, WA)
Description: 5.95 acres
Address: 8173 Blaine Road, Blaine
Price: $600,000
Date: 06/21/07
Seller: Almer Zander
Buyer: DMP Construction
Description: 1.84 acres
Address: 5349 Starry Road, Bellingham
Price: $225,000
Date: 06/22/07
Seller: Robert and Margaret Nelson
Buyer: John and Michelle Byrnes
Description: Lot – marine and territorial view in Birch Bay Village.
Address: Salish Road, Blaine
Price: $200,000
Date: 06/26/07
Seller: Prestlien Development, LLC
Buyer: Harry and Lillian Edwards
Description: 3.51 acres – marine views.
Address: 3144 Edgewood Lane, Bellingham
Price: $579,000
Date: 06/26/07
Seller: Terry and Diana O’Hara
Buyer: Jash Properties, LLC (Tustin, CA)
Description: Lot – marine view, beach access, 84 feet waterfront.
Address: 2931 Leeward Way, Bellingham
Price: $315,000
Date: 06/29/07
Seller: Trillium Corporation
Buyer: Keith and Barbara Troske
Description: 2 lots – 100 feet tideland; marine view.
Address: Maple Way, Blaine
Price: $250,000
Date: 07/02/07
Seller: Ildiko Wainwright
Buyer: Samuel Chung (Beverley Hills, CA)
Description: Lot –100 feet waterfront, 100 feet tidelands; marine and territorial view.
Address: Edwards Drive, Point Roberts
Price: $500,000
Date: 07/02/07
Seller: Paula and William Maris
Buyer: James Keenan and Lisa Mudd-Keenan
Description: Lot – marine and territorial view.
Address: 1807 Samish Crest Way, Bellingham
Price: $560,000
Date: 07/09/07
Seller: Yvonne Drury
Buyer: Northwest Washington Fair Association
Description: 2.78 acres – 1 –and a half story house with 1,604 square feet, 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, built in 1939, remodeled in 2006, 759 square foot carport, 400 square foot detached garage included in sale.
Address: 1867 Kok Road, Lynden
Price: $524,900
Date: 07/24/07
Commercial Land
Seller: Greenland Group, LLC
Buyer: Pacific International Mortgage, Inc. (Kirkland, WA)
Description: 5.95 acres – 3 lots – general commercial.
Address: 8173 Blaine Road, Blaine
Price: $600,000
Date: 06/21/07
Seller: Joan DeBoer
Buyer: Chance-Thornton, LLC
Description: 4.66 acres -agricultural.
Address: Jackman Road, Lynden
Price: $270,000
Date: 06/27/07
Seller: Reconnaissance Energy Corp.
Buyer: Karen Elaine, LLC
Description: 9.85 acres – agricultural with farm buildings.
Address: 7350 Ham Road, Custer
Price: $390,000
Date: 06/29/07
Seller: Douglas and Louise Connelly
Buyer: Sawan, LLC (Richmond, BC)
Description: 3.67 acres – manufacturing.
Address: 2750 Peace Portal Drive and Sweet Road, Blaine
Price: $1,764,767
Date: 07/06/07
Seller: Eastbourne Bellingham, LP
Buyer: Jack in the Box Inc. (San Diego, CA)
Description: 1.44 acres – territorial view.
Address: 1020 West Bakerview Road, 4121 Northwest Ave., Bellingham
Price: $1,600,000
Date: 07/11/07
Seller: Spruce Holdings, LLC
Buyer: Vantor, LLC (Vancouver, BC)
Description: 71.95 acres – forest/agricultural – residential development.
Address: 3980 Holtzheimer Trail, 3940 Loomis Trail Road, Bay Road, and Burk Road, Blaine.
Price: $756,836
Date: 07/16/07
Seller: Pine Holdings, LLC
Buyer: Vantor, LLC (Vancouver, BC)
Description: 51.84 acres – forest/agricultural – residential development.
Address: 3960 Holzheimer Trail, Bay Road, and Burk Road, Blaine
Price: $438,825
Date: 07/16/07
Seller: Amwest Properties, Inc.
Buyer: Vantor, LLC (Vancouver, BC)
Description: 174.40 acres – forest/agricultural – residential development; territorial views.
Address: Loomis Trail Road, Birch Bay Lynden Road, Bay Road, Burk Road and H Street Road, Blaine
Price: $2,160,214
Date: 07/16/07
Seller: Charles Baker
Buyer: Lummi Island Heritage Trust
Description: 80.00 acres – forest.
Address: Lummi Island
Price: $543,056
Date: 07/18/07
Seller: Margaret Brandsrud
Buyer: Lummi Island Heritage Trust
Description: Section of 201.78 acres – forest, tidelands, beach access; marine view.
Address: 3595 Sunrise Road and South Nugent Road, Lummi Island
Price: $552,000
Date: 07/18/07
Seller: Lummi Island Heritage Trust
Buyer: Charles Baker
Description: Section of a 617.75 acres parcel – forest; tidelands, beach access; marine view.
Address: 3595 Sunrise Road and S. Nugent Road, Lummi Island.
Price: $969,336
Date: 07/18/07
Seller: Norma Matthewson, Norma Ramsden and Norma Pearson
Buyer: Lummi Island Heritage Trust and San Juan Preservation Trust
Description: 448.97 acres – forest, tidelands, beach access; marine view – 2 -story house with 3 bedrooms, 1 bath, built in 1915, remodeled in 1976 included in sale.
Address: 3595 Sunrise Road and S. Nugent Road, Lummi Island.
Price: $1,574,000
Date: 07/18/07
Seller: Charles Baker
Buyer: Lummi Island Heritage Trust
Description: 332.47 acres – forest.
Address: 3595 Sunrise Road and South Nugent Road, Lummi Island.
Price: $100,000
Date: 07/18/07
Seller: Arnold Finkbonner & Sons, Inc.
Buyer: Cowden, Inc.
Description: 2.10 acres – general commercial
Address: 5391 Labounty Drive, Ferndale
Price: $500,000
Date: 07/24/07
Commercial properties
Seller: Larson-Musselman, LLC
Buyer: Daniel Kowals
Description: Office (Mt. Baker Vision) with 2,044 square feet, built in 1961, remodeled in 2001.
Address: 412 Girard St., Bellingham
Price: $399,000
Date: 06/18/07
Seller: Kenneth Kellar
Buyer: Jacaranda Land Corporation
Description: 2 – Taverns – 1 with 2782 square feet, 2,782 square foot unfinished basement, built in 1985, remodeled in 2004, 1 – with 1,740 square feet, 1,740 finished basement, built in 1905 remodeled in 1996, remodeled in 2004; marine view.
Address: 545 Peace Portal Drive, Blaine
Price: $250,000
Date: 06/20/07
Seller: Mears Phinney, LLC
Buyer: Thanh Nguyen and Huong Tran
Description: Gift Shop (Dorf and Ferns) with 2,008 square feet, built in 1901, remodeled in 2007.
Address: 2711 Meridian St., Bellingham
Price: $502,900
Date: 06/29/07
Seller: Masonry Way, LLC
Buyer: Terry Walters
Description: 7 – storage/office units with 6,915 square feet, 1,141 square foot mezzanine, 7 parking spaces; 2.37 acres land.
Address: Irongate-South Condominium, 2001 Masonry Way, Bellingham
Price: $925,000
Date: 06/29/07
Seller: TayKu LLC
Buyer: Emeral Exchange, LLC
Description: 2 –story office building with 102,400 square feet, built in 2000, remodeled in 2005, parking lot, 7.86 acres land.
Address: 400 Sequoia Drive and Cordata Parkway, Bellingham
Price: $3,500,000
Date: 07/03/07
Seller: Bruce Bryson and Cassandra Coleman-Bryson
Buyer: Nancy Holdings, Ltd. (Richmond, BC)
Description: Office/warehouse with a total of 4,615 square feet, built in 1955, remodeled in 1972.
Address: 253 Martin St., Blaine
Price: $339,500
Date: 07/03/07
Seller: 201 N. Commercial St., LLC
Buyer: Marjorie Hinds
Description: 16 – unit apartment building with a total of 5,454 square feet, built in 1900, remodeled in 2006.
Address: 201 N. Commercial St., Bellingham
Price: $878,000
Date: 07/05/07
Seller: Bean Blossom Coffee Co. Inc.
Buyer: Nina Holdings, LLC
Description: Drive-thru expresso and café with 1,135 square feet, built in 1995.
Address: 1205 Washington St., Bellingham
Price: $450,000
Date: 07/06/07
Seller: Jay and Grace Ahn
Buyer: Hee Soon and Hyeong-Tae Song
Description: Restaurant (Tokyo House) with 1,962 square feet, built in (no date available) remodeled in 2004.
Address: 1222 North Garden St., Bellingham
Price: $450,000
Date: 07/09/07
Seller: Weigum Properties, LLC
Buyer: VRI Development & Sales (Bellevue, WA)
Description: 12 –new condo units with a total of 15,547 square feet, built in 2007; marine views.
Address: Terrell Creek Landing Condominium, 4819/4823 Alderson Road, Blaine
Price: $4,200,000
Date: 07/16/07
Seller: United Association Local 26 Building Association
Buyer: Imladris Investments, LLC
Description: Clubhouse (Plumber’s and Steamfitter’s Union Hall) with 4,000 square feet. Built in 1964, remodeled in 1972.
Address: 1264 Mt. Baker Highway, Bellingham
Price: $295,000
Date: 07/23/07
Seller: Roger and Pammy Axelson
Buyer: Fincayra, LLC
Description: Office with 1,728 square feet, built in 1941, remodeled in 1998.
Address: #1B, 1310 Broadway Building Condominium, Broadway, Bellingham
Price: $323,000
Date: 07/25/07
