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• Broadview A North Seattle neighborhood on the Clerk's atlas, and any view a listing claims is confirmed from inside the house.
• Bitter Lake Takes its name from a small lake, and homes that face the water are compared with each other first.
• North Beach / Blue Ridge Two names the atlas pairs as one North Seattle neighborhood, so we check which name a listing used before matching sales.
• Crown Hill Begins on the north side of NW 85th Street, the line that marks the top of Ballard.
• Greenwood Borders Ballard on the east along 3rd Avenue NW, per Ballard's boundary description.
• Northgate Light rail reached Northgate in October 2021 and height limits near the station went up to 85 feet, so nearby lots are read for redevelopment potential.
• Haller Lake Grouped under Northgate on the atlas and named for its small lake, where frontage on the water is confirmed on site.
• Pinehurst A Northgate area neighborhood on the atlas, where we compare homes of similar age before widening the search.
• North College Park (Licton Springs) The atlas name is North College Park, though most people say Licton Springs, so we search sales under both names.
• Maple Leaf Another atlas neighborhood under Northgate, where home age and lot size are matched before looking farther out.
• Lake City Incorporated as a township in 1949 with more than 40,000 residents and annexed in 1954, when Seattle's limits moved from 85th to 145th Street.
• Cedar Park Grouped under Lake City on the atlas, inside the area Seattle took in with the 1954 annexation.
• Matthews Beach A Lake City area name on the atlas; if a home has lake frontage, only other lakefront sales set its value.
• Meadowbrook Part of the Lake City group, where we check for creek corridors that can shrink the usable yard.
• Olympic Hills Listed under Lake City on the atlas, inside the limits Seattle reached in 1954.
• Victory Heights A Lake City area neighborhood that carried racial restrictive covenants in 1923, per Wikipedia, and older title documents may still show that language.
• Wedgwood A North Seattle atlas neighborhood, compared first with sales inside its own streets.
• View Ridge As the name suggests, view is the question here, and we confirm it from the house before rating it.
• Sand Point The atlas uses this name for the area around Magnuson Park, and homes are compared on how close they sit to the park.
• Roosevelt A North Seattle atlas neighborhood where we compare homes against nearby sales from the same build era first.
• Ravenna A separate town until Seattle annexed it in 1907, and the atlas places the University Village shopping center inside it.
• Bryant A North Seattle atlas neighborhood where condition and update level carry most of the comparison.
• Windermere The atlas folds Hawthorne Hills into Windermere, so sales are sorted by which side of Sand Point Way they sit on.
• Hawthorne Hills Many residents treat the part west of Sand Point Way as its own neighborhood, apart from Windermere, and we follow that local usage when picking comps.
• Laurelhurst A North Seattle atlas neighborhood where waterfront, view and interior lots go into separate groups.
• University District Called Brooklyn in the 1890s and 1900s, it holds the UW campuses and The Ave, so distance from campus goes into the location notes.
• University Village Mostly the name of the shopping center, but locals use it for the streets around it, so a home described this way is placed by its true atlas neighborhood.
• Wallingford Includes the historic Latona area and usually Tangletown, also called Meridian, which some people place in Green Lake instead.
• Northlake An atlas neighborhood named for the north side of Lake Union, where any water view is confirmed from the home.
• Green Lake Built around the lake of the same name, and homes facing the water are compared with each other before anything a block back.
• Fremont Meets Ballard at 3rd Avenue NW, the boundary Ballard shares with Phinney Ridge and Greenwood.
• Phinney Ridge Borders Ballard along 3rd Avenue NW, and on a ridge a view is confirmed from inside before it counts.
• West Woodland A Ballard subarea on the atlas, valued against Ballard sales of the same housing type first.
• Whittier Heights Another Ballard subarea, where remodeled square footage is matched to permits before it counts toward value.
• Adams The atlas name for part of Ballard, which incorporated as a town in 1889 and joined Seattle in 1907.
• Sunset Hill A Ballard subarea whose name promises a western outlook, and we rate any Sound view only after seeing it.
• Loyal Heights A Ballard subarea on the atlas, compared first with Sunset Hill and Whittier Heights sales.
• Magnolia A headland with Discovery Park (534 acres) and only three road bridges over the rail yard, so access and view both go into the site description.
• Lawton Park A Magnolia subarea on the atlas; Discovery Park, the old Fort Lawton, covers much of the headland.
• Briarcliff A Magnolia subarea, where position on the hill decides whether a home sees the water.
• Southeast Magnolia The part of Magnolia nearest the Magnolia Bridge, one of the three road links over the rail yard.
• Interbay Between Queen Anne and Magnolia along the BNSF tracks and Terminal 91, so the few homes here need a wider comp search.
• North Queen Anne The north side of the hill toward the Ship Canal, compared with other Queen Anne sales before Fremont or Ballard.
• East Queen Anne Annexed to McGraw Street in 1883 and beyond it in 1891, on the side of the hill facing Lake Union.
• Lower Queen Anne (Uptown) Also called Uptown, at the south base of the hill, and its condos are compared with other Uptown buildings first.
• West Queen Anne The west face of the hill toward Interbay, where we check whether a lot looks out over Elliott Bay.
• Portage Bay / Roanoke Includes the Roanoke Park Historic District and was annexed in two steps, 1883 and 1891.
• Broadway The Clerk's Broadway District is larger than what most residents call Broadway, roughly matching Capitol Hill's share of the 1869 city.
• Pike/Pine An east to west corridor that built a strong identity early this century, and its condos are compared with other mid rise buildings on the hill.
• Montlake Filed under Capitol Hill by the atlas, though a valley along Boyer Avenue sets it apart from the hill.
• Stevens An older name used mostly near Stevens School on north Capitol Hill.
• Interlaken Mostly Interlaken Park and Louisa Boren Park plus a small number of private homes, so sales here are rare and comps come from nearby.
• Madison Valley Annexed south of East Galer Street in 1883 and the rest in 1891.
• Renton Hill A name that has mostly faded, though its community club, founded in 1901, was Seattle's first.
• Madison Park Filed by the atlas under Capitol Hill even though the Arboretum valley separates the two, and Broadmoor sits inside it.
• Broadmoor A private community with controlled entry inside Madison Park, so sales inside it are kept apart from the streets outside.
• Lake Union The atlas umbrella for South Lake Union, Westlake and Eastlake, which it labels Cascade in places.
• South Lake Union Annexed in 1883, and a condo here is compared with other condo sales near the lake before downtown towers.
• Cascade Once reached west to Terry Avenue and is now generally said to end at Fairview, with part of it cut off by Interstate 5.
• Westlake The lake's west side by name, grouped under Lake Union, where a water view is rated from the unit itself.
• Eastlake Between Lake Union and I-5, with Seattle's highest concentration of floating homes, so moorage terms are read before the value is set.
• Denny Triangle A Downtown subarea on the atlas, where unit floor, view and building amenities lead a condo comparison.
• Belltown Mostly residential with some offices, and 2nd Avenue and Virginia Street is the highest point in Downtown.
• Pike-Market The atlas name for the Pike Place Market blocks, where a condo's view and building age are matched closely.
• Central Business District Downtown's office core on the atlas, where we compare a unit with sales in its own building before looking next door.
• First Hill Called Pill Hill for its hospitals, it was once the city's most desirable residential area.
• Pioneer Square The city's original center and the likely origin of the term Skid Road, so the historic district is noted for any condo inside it.
• International District Also called Chinatown, it takes in Little Saigon east of I-5 and what remains of Japantown, on tidelands filled in 1902.
• Yesler Terrace A housing project east of I-5 that once reached farther west into what is now Kobe Terrace Park.
• Central Waterfront Downtown's shoreline on Elliott Bay, where condo water views are confirmed from the unit.
• West Edge The strip between about First and Second Avenues and Alaskan Way, shared by the business district and Belltown.
• Central District The atlas divides it into Mann, Minor, Atlantic, Madrona, Harrison / Denny-Blaine and Leschi.
• Mann An atlas name taken from the old Horace Mann School north of Garfield High School, with little use today.
• Minor Named for T.T. Minor School, an atlas label most residents do not use.
• Cherry Hill & Squire Park Partly in the original city, with Squire Park annexed in 1905 and a last enclave in 1921.
• Atlantic Its north part was in the 1869 city and the land south of Atlantic Street joined in 1883.
• Judkins Park Grouped under Atlantic on the atlas, and we compare its homes with nearby Atlantic and Central District sales.
• Madrona South of East Howell Street it was in the 1869 city, and the rest joined in 1883.
• Madrona Valley A subarea of Madrona on the atlas, where we look at slope and outlook one block at a time.
• Harrison / Denny-Blaine A Central Area pairing on the atlas where lot position and view decide most adjustments.
• Washington Park Listed under Harrison / Denny-Blaine, and its sales are compared with that group first.
• Leschi A Central Area neighborhood on the atlas, where lots are sorted by water frontage, view or neither before comps are picked.
• Rainier Valley North of Atlantic Street it was in the 1869 city, south to Hanford Street it joined in 1883, and the rest came in 1907.
• Mount Baker Shares the Rainier Valley annexation history (1869, 1883, 1907), and slope and view are the first things we check.
• Hillman City South of Columbia City in the Rainier Valley, where we compare homes on age and condition before size.
• Brighton The lakeshore next to it was once called Brighton Beach, which the atlas now counts as part of Seward Park.
• Dunlap / Othello A Rainier Valley pairing on the atlas, and a townhome here is compared with townhomes, a house with houses.
• Rainier Beach / Atlantic City Beach Listed with its old Atlantic City Beach name on the atlas, and lakefront and inland sales are never mixed.
• Rainier View / Lakeridge The atlas pairs these two names in the Rainier Valley, and we confirm the parcel is inside Seattle before using a nearby sale.
• Seward Park The atlas uses the park's name for the surrounding neighborhood, which also takes in the old Brighton Beach shore.
• Lakewood The northern part of Seward Park, whose historic Lakewood Community Club is now the Lakewood/Seward Park Community Club.
• Beacon Hill Bounded by I-5, I-90 and Rainier Avenue, with many Craftsman bungalows and Seattle box houses on its north end, mostly from the early 1900s.
• North Beacon Hill Where most of the hill's early 1900s homes stand, near the light rail station at Beacon Avenue South and South Lander Street.
• Mid Beacon Hill (Maplewood) The middle of the Beacon Hill ridge, also listed as Maplewood on the atlas.
• Holly Park / NewHolly The former Holly Park housing project, now officially NewHolly, where newer homes are compared against each other first.
• South Beacon Hill / Van Asselt The south end of the hill, reaching to the city line, where we confirm the school district by address.
• Industrial District Mostly tidelands west of Beacon Hill filled in 1902, plus land annexed in 1907 and 1910.
• SoDo Tidelands west of Beacon Hill, platted in 1895 and filled in 1902.
• Harbor Island Former tidelands grouped with SoDo in the Industrial District on the atlas.
• Georgetown A city of its own for six years before Seattle annexed it in 1910.
• South Park A town for five years before its 1907 annexation; we check flood maps for any South Park parcel.
• Alki Point Where the Denny Party landed in 1851, and beach side and hillside homes here are valued against different sales.
• North Admiral / Admiral District The north end of West Seattle around Admiral Junction, where Elliott Bay and downtown views are checked from inside the house.
• West Seattle Junction / Alaska Junction The business center at California Avenue SW and SW Alaska Street, overlapping Genesee on the atlas.
• Seaview / Mee-Kwa-Mooks Paired with the name Mee-Kwa-Mooks on the atlas, and any Puget Sound view is rated from inside the home.
• Fairmount Park A West Seattle atlas neighborhood, compared first with Genesee and Junction sales.
• Genesee Overlaps the Junction on the atlas, so we confirm which name a listing used before treating sales as matches.
• Gatewood On the southwest end of West Seattle, where position and outlook separate one sale from the next.
• Fauntleroy One of the southwest end neighborhoods of West Seattle, where water frontage is confirmed on site.
• Arbor Heights The far southwest corner, brought into the city mostly in annexations of 1950, 1954 and 1956.
• Delridge Most of it joined Seattle with West Seattle in 1907, and the rest in 1946 and 1949.
• North Delridge The north part of the Delridge group, where a sale from the 2020 to 2022 bridge closure gets a second look.
• Pigeon Point The far northeast tip of Delridge, east of Delridge Way and north of Puget Park.
• Riverview A Delridge area neighborhood; the West Duwamish Greenbelt holds much of West Seattle's green space, and we note any greenbelt edge on the lot.
• Highland Park Part of the Delridge group on the atlas, compared first with Roxhill and South Delridge.
• South Delridge The southern stretch of the Delridge group, where we confirm the parcel is inside Seattle before using a sale.
• Roxhill A Delridge subarea, where build era and lot size steer the comp search.
• High Point Rebuilt with about 1,600 new housing units, most Energy Star rated, and home to Seattle's highest point, 520 feet at Myrtle Reservoir Park.