Kirkland old house or Kenmore new
For those in the Seattle area, would you rather live in an old 1970s 1800 sq ft house in Kirkland or a new construction 3000 sq ft house in Kenmore?
If Kirkland is Kingsgate, Kenmore new house
Why? How is Kingsgate?
Not as good as the rest of Kirkland
As others have asked, where in Kirkland?
Is the school district important to you? Access to parks and restaurants/cafe? Are you ok driving 15 mins to access those?
Kenmore if answer is no/no/yes
School district is important. 7 or higher. Ok driving to parks and restaurants since I'll be driving everywhere anyway.
What about yard space? Commute? School district? Price?
Commute will be to downtown Kirkland. School district is important. 7 or higher. Want something around 1.5M.
Bigger lot wins. Newer homes have alleys not front or back yards unless you paying 5+M here
North Kirkland is a shithole
Whichever has the house farther from the street and neighbors. I live in Kirkland and I'm so tired of shitboxes with their obnoxiously loud exhaust racing down the streets at 1am
A good chunk of Kirkland is really just Kenmore/Bothell/Woodinville but 30% more expensive. The schools your kids go to are worse than northshore. We live in Kenmore (south of 522) and feel we get everything that Kirkland has but better. Only problem is commute, you're not on a major transit corridor. If you can buy in Norkirk or Houghton, that's a very different Kirkland. fwiw the people saying "north kirkland is a shithole" and "finn hill is terrible" are classic blind rhetoric. It's fine, it's just not as nice as other parts of Kirkland. Oh no, dated cabinets, the horror....
I know a lady that bought a condo in Kenmore, came out the first morning and her car was on blocks. Took less than 24 hours for some douche to steal all four of her wheels/tires.
Lol. I thought it only happens in San Francisco or Auckland
Need more info on which Kirkland area. Some parts of Kirkland have poor schools and are not that great. Fin hill area is not that great. Totem lake is still improving.