If you're looking for a quiet but beautiful place to live in the Puget Sound area, take a look at Mountlake Terrace homes for sale. The community, for its strong schools alone, part of the nationally recognized Edmonds school district, is ideal for family life. But there's far more it can offer than that. Conveniently situated along the Interstate 5 corridor with splendid views of the Cascades, it's a great place to call home.

Just 11 miles north of downtown Seattle, Mountlake Terrace homes for sale lie just over the line into Snohomish County. The surrounding Puget Sound coastal elevation of 440 feet contrasts sharply with Mount Rainier's imposing 14,400 feet some 75 miles south, making the views especially attractive. Just four miles inland from the salt and freshwater mix of Puget Sound and the same distance north of Lake Washington, the community is not only convenient and lovely, but affordable as well.

Originally a turn-of-the-century logging community, the city turned residential in the 1940s when the first Mountlake Terrace homes for sale went on the market. Designed on a speculative basis with returning World War II veterans in mind, the city grew to a population of 5,000 in its first 10 years. Incorporated on November 29, 1954, it now has a population of about 21,000 citizens pleased to call it home.

A Closer Look at Mountlake Terrace Homes for Sale

With 12 parks and recreational facilities encompassing some 260 acres, the four square miles of Mountlake Terrace are home to about 8,000 residential properties. About 5,000 of these are owner occupied. Numbers from the last federal census, estimated forward, indicate a median value of about $200,000. A more realistic market value as far as buyers are concerned ranges from a low of about $180,000 to a high of about $800,000 for a single-family home with three bedrooms.