Sell your Surrey Downs home: mid-century original or new build, a block from downtown and the East Main light-rail station.

Surrey Downs occupies about 80 acres of former orchard south of downtown Bellevue, entered from Main Street at 110th Avenue SE and running eight blocks south, bounded by 108th and 112th Avenues SE with I-405 immediately east. Roxbury Homes built it in 1952 through 1954 to designs by Mithun and Nesland: two- and three-bedroom contemporaries with carports, open plans and irregular lots that kept the native trees. The state's historic preservation office has judged the tract eligible as a National Register historic district. That history is a selling point for one buyer pool and irrelevant to another, and the listing has to be written for the one that will pay the most for your specific home.

The neighborhood now trades in two products. Well-kept or updated originals on 8,700-to-13,700-square-foot lots draw buyers who want a mid-century home a walk from downtown. Custom new construction from builders like MN Custom Homes and Bellshire draws buyers who want a new house on a West Bellevue lot without a West Bellevue waterfront price, and it sets the land value that every original home is measured against. Per-square-foot prices here are among the highest in Bellevue precisely because the lot carries so much of the value. RexMont runs the comparable analysis both ways, as a home and as a lot, and tells you which buyer to market to.

Location is the constant. East Main station on the 2 Line opened in April 2024 at 229 112th Avenue SE with a multi-use path into Surrey Downs and no commuter parking, which keeps the streets quiet; permanent sound walls shield the neighborhood from the tracks. Surrey Downs Park, 10.5 acres on the former elementary school and courthouse site, opened in 2019 with a great lawn, playground and sport court, and its only vehicle entrance is from SE 4th Street inside the neighborhood. Downtown Bellevue, Meydenbauer Beach Park and the Main Street restaurants are a walk. Schools are Enatai Elementary, Chinook Middle and Bellevue High.

Inventory is the other lever: Surrey Downs sees roughly a dozen or so sales a year and often has no active listing at all, so a well-prepared home arrives with no direct competition. RexMont's launch plan for Surrey Downs leads with the walk-to-downtown and walk-to-light-rail story, states the historic context and the I-405 adjacency plainly, and prices from closed sales in your product type rather than the neighborhood blend. The net-proceeds calculator below shows what a Surrey Downs sale nets after commission, Washington excise tax and closing costs; excise tax matters more here because prices run high.