The Real Estate Deal
Editor Cindy Zetts dishes on real-estate and development around Puget Sound: She lived in apartments, townhomes and houses -- a dozen of them in four states -- before settling in the Seattle area in 1997. After taking a bath on the sale of her first home, in South Florida, she vowed to wise up about real estate. She bought a house in Covington 10 years ago because, well, she could afford one there.
SubscribeJune 20, 2008 4:58 PM
This house floats to new home
Posted by Becky Bisbee
You may have heard about the Tudor-style house floating from Hunts Point through the Ballard locks on its way out to the Puget Sound and its eventual home on Vancouver Island.
The house made it - in one piece - to Fanny Bay on Thursday night during high tide. This BBC footage of the house moving through the locks is really cool to watch. That was one tight fit.
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