The San Juan Island Choice: Real Estate

Island Choices

Special picks of current real estate in the beautiful San Juan Islands.

Last update: 07/22/10

How it Works

Real estate on San Juan Island is listed at one of 5 real estate brokerages. All brokerages share listings, even listings which say "exclusive" on signs or advertisements. Many Buyers don't know that today in Washington State, a Buyer is represented by the real estate agent, even though the Seller is paying the commission. Not surprisingly, we recommend ourselves! We will represent a Buyer on any property that is not our own listing. Want more information? You can sign up for our E-mail updates which will come to you via email when something new and interesting comes on the market in a category that interests you. Sign up for acreage, houses on acreage, view houses, lots, waterfront homes, waterfront, condos, or outer islands. Or all of the above! Simply us your address to begin. No salesman will call, we promise you! If you like to search around on your own, you may go to our MLS. or to our office website or to www.zillow.com to see listings currently available in the active database. Then, contact us with the MLS number, price, or address, to find out more information from someone who has actually been to see the property. The listings shown here are our own listings. This real estate page is an original of a 2001 page which won awards in its day. You may also be interested in my blog about the San Juans at http://sjchoice.wordpress.com.

Three Bedroom home with 220 insulated Shop/garage and sport court just minutes from Friday Harbor on nearly an acre! This custom Timberland modular home has a large master suite and two other bedrooms, an expansive deck and rolling green lawns down to trees that give privacy and provide a lacy backdrop to sunset colors at dusk. Newly listed, the house has a lovely bluestone walkway and a dog run with a heated dog house. Their is a separate dining area and a spacious kitchen. In the living room there is room for a desk. In the small and friendly North Forty, where the neighbors have a common water system and shared walking paths in the surrounding woods. It is less than one mile to town and there is even a walking and biking shortcut to get there. If you love privacy but want to live close to town, this is for you! New in 2006 and ready to move into, this one won't last long. MLS # 62383. $399,000.

Log home on Orcas Island: Warm and Welcoming, this beautiful custom log home is privately situated on five acres past the popular Moran State Park. Gorgeous views of the boating traffic on Rosario Strait dominate the spacious Great Room. The huge Douglas Firs in the logs and on the twelve inch wide plank floors came from the property. Special features include a Siberian fireplace, huge walk-in pantry, sunny fenced garden with fruit trees, potting room, port cochere, garage with shop, and tranquil pond. In the historic locale of Doe Bay and Olga on Orcas in the San Juan Islands, this residence is accessed by Washington State ferry or pleasure boat or plane. There is a lighted 24 hour airstrip that accommodates Lear Jets. Recreation on Orcas Island includes hiking and camping and fresh- water fishing in Moran State Park; pleasure boating in the US and Canadian waters, whale watching, salt water fishing, crabbing, and shrimping. Orcas Island has several fine restaurants, shopping, a community theatre, and an active retirement community. Ferries and boats provide access to the other San Juan Islands and to Vancouver Island, BC, where the wonderful city of Victoria is located. Orcas is in the sunshine belt of Washington, where the climate is mild and there is less rain than Seattle or other parts of western Washington. MLS# 28106024. Priced at $1,075,000. This experienced builder is in the process of finishing up a Timber frame post and beam home on the adjacent five acres, also with a view. See picture of Timber frame View Home, below. Purchase both for an incredible estate property at $2,075,000.

SOLD! This beautifully crafted timber frame home is directly uphill and behind the community dock at a quiet bay on San Juan Island where your boat can take you quickly to Roche Harbor, Victoria BC, or the Canadian Gulf Islands. A winding driveway past an idyllic alpaca farm in West Valley takes you through the common 13 acres to this three bedroom home on 1.1 acres at Blazing Shores. The spacious timber frame home has an expansive living room with vaulted ceiling, a walk-in pantry, a large kitchen with room for a dining table, and the rarely found separate dining room. The style and views from the deck and home are of Mitchell Bay where you have 24 feet of dock space. You have all the ambience of a waterfront home without the taxes. Discover the many extras at this lovely home: a shop with water views, an incredible loft office space, notable landscaping and gardens. Impressive entrance and wonderful lighting and ledges to display all of your art collections. MLS#29073089. This house closed for $1,100,000 in July. Someone got a wonderful buy.

Timber Frame View Home. On the five lovely wooded acres adjacent to the Log Home on Orcas pictured above, this post and beam home is currently under construction with an estimated completion date of summer's end, 2009. Views from the Great Room and covered deck look over the forest to the sea. This 4,000 square foot home has an additional 2000 square feet of storage, including an open attic and a two car garage. On the ground level there is the garage, a workshop, and a caretakers apartment complete with kitchen and bath and laundry. The kitchen will have all stainless appliances and a Italian five burner propane range. The floors will be finished in hardwood and tile. Meticulous details abound in this incredible home on Orcas Island near Olga. Orcas has a twenty-four hour airport with a lighted runway and several quiet marinas for your boat. Located in the beautiful San Juan Islands, close to Vancouver Island, Canada and the Gulf Islands boating paradise.

MLS#29101582. Priced at $1,400,000. Buy with adjacent Log home, above, for $2,325,000.

Want to see the current inventory? First, save this page with your favorites or bookmarks. We are happy to have you browse all the listings available, but come back here when you want to buy! Who are we?

Island Group Sotheby's International Realty. * This is the office where we work. Our office's website lists all the inventory from all the offices in all of the San Juans. We are happy to provide more detailed information on any of the listings that you find on our site, just jot down to MLS # and email or call. Island Group Sotheby's Realty is licensed in the State of Washington. Each office is Independently Owned. Diana Clark is a licensed Associate Broker at Island Group Sotheby's International Realty, located in Friday Harbor.

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