Longview, WA

Are you looking to buy a home in the Longview Washington real estate market?

If you already live in Longview you know how great this community is or if you are trying to relocate to the area let me introduce you to this great community. With about 40,000 residents, Longview Washington is the biggest and fastest growing city in Cowlitz County. Longview is divided into the following twelve different neighborhoods Broadway, Highlands, St. Helens, Old Westside, Olympic, Columbia Heights, Hillside/Cascade Way, CVG/North Lake, Pacific Way, Beacon Hill, Robert Gray/Mint Valley and West County. In one of these neighborhoods I'm sure you will find a home that will meet you family needs; you will find a wide range of real estate from a small fixer-upper for under $100,000 to the newer close to $1,000,000 custom home with acreage, water front, city, river or mount views.

Whether you live in or relocating to Longview you'll find that this is quite, nice, friendly family oriented community with great environment for raising a family or to retired. Longview has plenty of activities to choose from to keep kids active all year and to keep adults busy as well. Soccer and baseball are huge part of many Longview families' daily activities and there also many others football, softball, swimming, many school sport activities, two golf courses, adults softball and soccer leagues, many others parks and activities. And not to forget Lake Sacajawea Park a beautifully landscaped 20 acres, in the middle of the city, full of different tree spices, wildlife, play grounds and different activities to do like walking, jogging, fishing and kayaking.

Another big plus about Longview is the real estate market is very affordable compared to the Vancouver/Portland to the South or Tacoma/Seattle to the North. There are 12 different neighborhoods to choose from in Longview with price raging from $60,000 to $900,000 with an average price of $224,032 and medium price of 204,900.

Contact Cowlitz County real estate agent, Venancio Gonzalez a GRI, E-PRO Realtor®, with Windermere Real Estate Allen & Associates, 360 751 4001, to list your home or to purchase a home in Longview, Kelso, Woodland, Kalama, Castle Rock, Toutle, Silver Lake or Cathlamet.

Early this month a child of one of our own in the real estate industry (9 year old Hannah, the daughter of Danni Wicken from Chicago Title) was diagnosed with leukemia. A devastating situation, our harts and prayers go out to her and her family. The incredible support and unity the whole Cowlitz County community has shown has been unbelievable; neighbors, class mates, co-workers, parents and teachers of her school and the real estate community (among others) have jumped on board to help with meals, toy, organized car washes, raffles and other fund raisers. Click here for more on her story.

Since I know Danni through work and my 10 year old daughter (Leslie) attends the same school as Hannah, we decided to team up and volunteer on last Sunday's car wash organized by Dnni's co-workers and other in the real estate industry. I'm happy to say that despite all the unusual crazy weather we been having the last couple weeks, Sunday was nice and the turn out was great. Thanks to everyone that showed up with their donations and made us work none stop for almost three hours, we had a blast.

On Sunday May 4^th the Cowlitz PUD employees, family and friends will be holding another fund-raising car wash from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm on the Ocean Beach Highway Les Schwab Tire Store. Come to support Hannah and show your unity spirit or you can also stop by Bank of America and make a donation and don't forget to keep her and her family in your prayers.

Well, this last weekend, here in Cowlitz County we finally had nice weather, for the first time it felt like spring. It is a great feeling to go outside and see the sun shinning, all the colorful trees blooming and the beginning of all the sport activities baseball, softball and spring soccer. My wonderful wife (Martha) and I are the proud parents of three great children Alan, Leslie, and our baby Edgar; all three are in sports so we had a very busy day on Saturday, three games and opening ceremonies spread out through the day from 9:00 am till 4:00 pm.

Our first event was Edgar's T-ball game. We had a great time watching him and his team mates play their first T-ball game, these kid are from 4 ½ to 6 years old (Edgar is 4 ½). As you can imagine it was a lot of excitement there, a lot of proud parents and grandparents gear up with cameras and camcorders ready to capture for the first time those special moments. After that great experience out we went to the next schedule events, Leslie's game then Alan's. We had a wonderful day the kid got to do what they love to do and we got watch them and visit with some of our friend and other parents.

I'm looking forward to the next couple months of practices, games and hopefully nice like this weekend.