About Auburn's Lakeland Hills

Lakeland Hills in Auburn Washington is both a beautiful and diverse community located in South King County. There are many parks and recreational activities available year round in Lakeland. Whether you just want a fun day at the park, to boating, or golfing, this area has it all. Lakeland is a smartly master planned community that includes a diverse range on single family homes, townhomes, and condos that are all layed out in a functional and lifestyle friendly manner. The Lakeland Town Center offers many shopping and dinning choices right in your own backyard.

Sounds like a great place to live right? Wondering what it costs to live in this community? Do you already live in Lakeland and want to know what your home is worth? For free communtiy information and a current look at all home sales in the are click on KingCountyHomeValues.info and sign up for a free monthly report that will break it all down for you in one easy snapshot. It's a great tool to use and easy too!

If you are a resident of Lakeland please feel free to post here. What are your likes and dislikes about the community? How much do you love living here? Let the community know and learn from you!

Until next time!

Lakeland Hills is a planned community located on the East Hill, just north of Lake Tapps. It sits right on the King County and Pierce County dividing line.

It's an interesting area to observe, from a real estate standpoint, simply because there's such a wonderful mix of new construction, townhouses, single family homes in "condo" style, where the lots are small but the homes are detached, and some older homes with larger lots and fantastic views.

In Lakeland, it's common to see amazing views of both the Cascades and Mt. Rainier, and then off to the west to see the Kent/Auburn valley and the Olympics out in the distance. Absolutely gorgeous area.

As with many communities, at the moment there's a mix of brand new construction combined with an sad mix of short sale and bank-owned properties. Since I live in and specialize in the Auburn area, I've tried to keep tabs on exactly what's happening in Lakeland -- which homes are selling (or not) and whether they're being sold by private owners or relocation companies, compared to new construction sales, bank owned or short sales.

Builders are doing well in Lakeland, although they're offering some fierce incentives at the moment. A few short sales are closing, but, again like many other areas, the bank owned properties are dictating prices to get inventory off the market.

Don't hesitate to give me a call or shoot me a message if you have any questions, comments, or input! I'm all ears!!

Lakeland Hills and all of its neighborhoods is a master-planned community on the east side of Auburn, just north of the Lake Tapps border. While the majority of homes in Lakeland are in King County, a portion of the community is actually in Pierce County.

With it's combination of single family homes, townhouses, condominiums, apartments, shops, theatres, parks and beautiful views, Lakeland is one of my favorite Auburn places!

Since I prepare sales statistics for Auburn, my home town!, I was asked to please prepare a little closer look at Lakeland activity this last month. So ... here you go! Please let me know if I can answer any questions!

A quick review shows that homes in Lakeland priced between $200,000 and $300,000 currently sell the quickest, with approximately 7 months worth of inventory currently on the market. This number is a calculation based on the number of homes currently for sale (active) as compared to the number of homes that sold within the past six months in the area. Normally I like to run this number based on only three months, but with Thanksgiving through our bizarre December and January weather, sales slowed down even more and calculating numbers based on that period would just be skewed, in my opinion.

The other piece of information you may find useful is a quick break down of where these sales are occurring:

Private sales - i.e., sold by the owner or through corporate relocation of some sort, as compared to New Construction (either completed or in presale form) or bank owned properties. I also break out short sales separately-even though they're technically "sold by the owner," they require lienholder approval and are therefore, not quite the same.