Good morning. Issue two of the Queen Anne & Magnolia Dispatch: five minutes on what moved on Queen Anne and in Magnolia this week, one item for your own neighborhood, the market in three numbers, and one practical thing for the house.
Queen Anne & Magnolia this week
Halloween on the hilltop is Saturday, October 31. The Queen Anne Farmers Market holds a Halloween Harvest Market from 10 AM to 3 PM at West Crockett Street and Queen Anne Avenue North. Trick or Treat on the Ave runs 3:30 to 6 PM on Queen Anne Avenue, pets welcome. The Fall Wine Walk follows on Saturday, November 7, 4 to 7 PM. Queen Anne Chamber
Ballots are due Tuesday, November 3. No stamp is needed. A mailed ballot must be postmarked by Election Day, and the Postal Service recommends mailing at least a week ahead. Drop boxes close at 8 PM on November 3. King County Elections
Light rail: no recap yet from Monday's forum; the next step is the Draft EIS. As of Tuesday, Sound Transit had posted nothing from the October 19 forum. Its project page says it hopes to publish the Draft Environmental Impact Statement, covering SODO to Ballard, by the end of the year or early 2027, followed by a public comment period. Sound Transit
Climate Pledge Arena has an event eight of the next ten nights. Tonight, then October 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 31; three are Kraken games. Arena calendar
Council budget amendments come up next week. The Select Budget Committee takes oral comment Tuesday, October 27, at 9:30 AM and discusses councilmembers' proposals October 27 to 29. The chair's balancing package is due November 3; the second public hearing is November 5. City Council
Your neighborhood
Lower Queen Anne / Uptown. The Día de Muertos Festival fills the Armory Food & Event Hall on Saturday, October 31, and Sunday, November 1. It is free, part of Seattle Center's Festál series, with altars, performances, face painting and sugar skull workshops. This weekend, October 24 and 25, the Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair is in the Exhibition Hall. Día de Muertos · Seattle Center
Sold near you: 12 homes closed within 0.6 mile of the neighborhood center in the last 45 days, median $732K (range $215K to $6.55M); the fastest went from listing to closing in 10 days.
East Queen Anne. (evergreen) Trolley Hill Park, 1800 5th Avenue North at Blaine Street, has a community P-Patch, a picnic area and a natural play area. The name comes from 5th Avenue North, one of the main trolley lines up Queen Anne Hill from 1890 to 1940. Seattle Parks
Sold near you: 15 homes closed within 0.6 mile of the neighborhood center in the last 45 days, median $720K (range $260K to $5.17M); the fastest went from listing to closing in 10 days.
West Queen Anne. Queen Anne Pool, 1920 1st Avenue West, stays closed until fall 2027. It closed in November 2025 after losing about 400,000 gallons of water a month through underground inflow pipes; the permanent fix is part of the Citywide Pool Renovation Project. This fall Ballard Pool adds Saturday afternoon swims, and Evans and Medgar Evers pools add Sunday hours and early-morning lap swim. Winter 2027 lesson registration opens December 8 (December 1 for the Scholarship Program). Seattle Parks
Sold near you: 9 homes closed within 0.6 mile of the neighborhood center in the last 45 days, median $1.55M (range $485K to $6.55M); the fastest went from listing to closing in 24 days.
North Queen Anne. (evergreen) David Rodgers Park sits on a steep, sculpted hillside on upper 1st Avenue West. The play area, renovated in 2019, has nature-themed equipment and a panel listing when each state joined the Union; there are also three tennis courts and restrooms. Paths wind down grassy knolls to the Queen Anne Bowl. Seattle Parks
Sold near you: 23 homes closed within 0.6 mile of the neighborhood center in the last 45 days, median $1.43M (range $283K to $2.26M); the fastest went from listing to closing in 21 days.
Interbay. (evergreen) Fishermen's Terminal on Salmon Bay was the Port of Seattle's first construction project: pile drivers started on February 15, 1913, and the terminal was dedicated on January 10, 1914, with moorage for 100 boats. The Seattle Fishermen's Memorial there carries the names of more than 500 local commercial fishermen and women lost at sea. Port of Seattle · Memorial
Sold near you: 10 homes closed within 0.6 mile of the neighborhood center in the last 45 days, median $1.01M (range $230K to $3.27M); the fastest went from listing to closing in 21 days.
Lawton Park. (evergreen) Magnolia Manor Park, 3500 28th Avenue West, sits on the old Magnolia Reservoir site, replaced with an underground structure in 1995. Part of the space is now a 21,000-square-foot off-leash area with a view, and the park also holds Magnolia's first P-Patch, a picnic table, benches and a walking path. Seattle Parks
Sold near you: 12 homes closed within 0.6 mile of the neighborhood center in the last 45 days, median $839K (range $296K to $1.74M); the fastest went from listing to closing in 35 days.
Briarcliff. Discovery Park's free beach shuttle has two runs of four days left: Thursday to Sunday this week and next, 11 AM to 5 PM, ending Sunday, November 1. It loops from the South Lot (enter from 43rd Avenue West and West Emerson Street) and the East and North lots; the last ride leaves the beach at 4:45 PM. Beach-level parking stays ADA-placard only, and the Visitor Center is closed until summer 2027. Seattle Parks
Sold near you: 9 homes closed within 0.6 mile of the neighborhood center in the last 45 days, median $1.32M (range $875K to $3.20M); the fastest went from listing to closing in 8 days.
Southeast Magnolia. Seattle Parks shows three design concepts for the new Magnolia Playfield play area on Saturday, October 31, 10 AM to noon. Look for the tent just south of the Magnolia Community Center, 2550 34th Avenue West; an online survey opens the same day, and costumes are encouraged. Seattle Parks · Project page
Sold near you: 10 homes closed within 0.6 mile of the neighborhood center in the last 45 days, median $1.12M (range $640K to $3.27M); the fastest went from listing to closing in 2 days.
The market in 60 seconds
Across Queen Anne and Magnolia ZIPs 98109, 98119 and 98199 (City of Seattle), the median home sold for $1.29M over the last 30 days (60 closings; houses alone $1.55M). The median home took 56 days from listing to closing, and there are 6.5 months of inventory on the market.
That is unchanged from last week and still on the buyer's side: above six months favors buyers, under three favors sellers. Houses alone run 4.3 months, and 167 of the 393 homes for sale are houses. 18% of homes closed above asking, up from 13% a week ago.
One useful thing: free leaf bags all November
In November, Seattle Public Utilities picks up up to 10 extra bags of leaves for free on each collection day for household food and yard waste customers. Use paper or compostable lawn and leaf bags, or a reusable container with a lid; never plastic bags. Any other month, each extra unit costs $7.50. Raking leaves out of the street keeps storm drains clear; if a drain stays clogged after you clear the surface, call SPU's drainage line at (206) 386-1800. SPU: leaves · SPU: storm drains
That's the week. Reply with anything you want tracked on Queen Anne or in Magnolia. Next Thursday, October 29: where Mercer Street and the RapidRide D Line stand.
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