Eastside Homes and Community

Suburban Eastside

Seattle's Eastside homes and communities are vibrant and diverse, with rich employment opportunities, robust shopping, entertainment and dining variety, remarkable schools, and countless other amenities.

The 22 mile long Lake Washington separates Seattle from the eastside suburban cities of Bellevue, Redmond, Kirkland, Issaquah, Sammamish, Mercer Island, Newcastle, Woodinville, Kenmore, Bothell, and Renton, as well as semi-rural cities such as Snoqualmie, Fall City, Carnation and Duvall.  Two lengthy floating bridges cross Lake Washington to provide major freeway connections between Seattle and Eastside communities via Interstate 5 and Washington State Route 520.

Nearly all parts of the spectrum of home values are represented in Eastside communities, though the entry level end of the spectrum has been gradually becoming less affordable, as major employment growth has caused populations to move in faster than new homes have been built, for a number of years.

Eastside homes include expensive mansions along the shores of Lake Washington and Lake Sammamish; a multitude of condominiums ranging from budget to extravagant, farms, manufactured home parks, retirement communities, and countless suburban housing developments of diverse character.

In 2021 construction is underway on a new light rail system designed to take significant traffic burden off of Eastside roads, highways and freeways.