They’ve been pushing land sale opportunities at Eagles Springs Ranch pretty hard here in Seattle lately. Radio ads for the high desert development 20 minutes from Moses Lake in Central Washington have been coming in loud and clear during our morning commutes.
We put a call into the developers to ask if they were having a tough time selling the lots, given the $1,000 an acre price and hearty sales pitch, but we’re told 117 parcels in 170-parcel first phase of the development have been sold, so scratch that theory.
There’s still plenty of land to go around out there in Eastern Washington, but there’s also no doubt that with places like Bend, Oregon becoming boom towns for Californians and others in search of the NEXT GREAT escape, central Washington is becoming an attractive alternative. Moses Lake ain’t no Bend, but, the location does put you in the middle of a giant outdoor playground, right there on the Columbia River; with alpine terrain about two hours north and Spokane/northern Idaho about three hours east.
LandCrazed 
FYI, Land sales for Eagle Springs must have slowed. Curiosity got this cat to go visit the dry barren, isolated and strangely appealing silent landscape of Eagle Springs Ranch this past summer. A recent mailer February 2008 was offering a $10K discount on the parcels. The lowest being $40K because it mostly lies within the defined floodplain boundary.