Luanne Highlander

According to the Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, Bellingham’s real estate market, along with the housing markets through out the US, is just taking a breather after two brisk years of equity and demand. Over the next 10 years, at least two million new households will be established. “On the strength of this growth alone, housing production should set records”, the report says.

Bellingham and the entire Northwest region is the top pick currently according to magazines, Best Places to Live categories, and the current popularity with aging Boomer’s looking for retirement communities away from smog, over crowding and crime, says Luanne Highlander, realtor and owner of Relocate Northwest. She is a relocation specialist who assists buyers from out of the area find investment homes, retirement homes or vacation second homes.