This view from the Post Office to Whidbey Island includes the Port Townsend to Keystone ferry, which provides our most direct east-west link to the mainland of Washington.

We live in an area that offers many choices to you as a buyer, and many opportunities to thrive.  Styles of homes, communities, land use and vistas are extremely diverse and often a bit eclectic. 

Finding and securing that special home or parcel includes understanding the options and having a chance to explore on your own and together with your Realtor®.  Success comes through communicating your vision and criteria, creating clarity in the search phase. 

Elevated Ice Cream is one of those unique kinds of places where no ice cream comes in the door because it's all made on the premises.  This wonderful piece of Port Townsend also offers a wide specialty candy selection and home-made pies and cakes, making this one spot a really good reason to come visit to the Olympic Peninsula.

Undeveloped land remains available, and we have opportunities that are worthy of the search — and are best found with the skills and knowledge of a local Realtor®.  I am here to help you with your discovery and exploration so you can realize your property dreams.

Centrum is Washington's Center for the Arts and Creative Education.  This largely volunteer organization hosts many world-class music festivals and other performing arts  and workshop events.  The annual Festival of American FIddle Tunes group performance is shown here, and is just one small piece of what makes Port Townsend a destination for people from all over the world.

I enjoy using the Internet for good contact and resource-sharing.  However, there is no substitute for being on the ground for getting a sense of place.   When you are gearing up for actively searching, it's important to be here for more than two days so that you can have a relaxed pace and explore areas and ideas.

The annual Kinetik Skulpture Race . . . what can we say?  Well, it happens in October, when a motley assemblage of all terrain art comes to town to parade and race on the streets, over the water, and through the mud.  It's one of those things that really has to be seen to be believed, so come see it!

Some move here and rent for six months to a year in order to be confident they are purchasing in the area that best fits their needs, and to be able to act promptly when the ideal property becomes available.

To further your understanding of the market and properties of possible interest, I search and send MLS data sheets based on your evolving criteria.  Jefferson County's web site — www.co.jefferson.wa.us — offers extensive mapping tools, assessor files, permit history (where applicable), as well as a host of useful county resources. 

When you add more than twenty first-rate restaurants to all of the other attractions that bring people to the northeast corner of the Olympic Peninsula, you have a great place to live life.

Please give me a call or send me an email today!