Its eastern front is pushed up against what is known as the "urban-growth boundary," a sawtoothed demarcation drawn north and south through east King County to slow (if not stop) sprawl.

Sammamish occupies a setting created by Pine Lake, Beaver Lake and a rural environment that in the late 1980s began surrendering to tracts of million-dollar houses and automobile congestion.

Sammamish single family homes range from $239,000 to above $1 million. The average price range being from $389,000 to $649,000. The average sales price last year was $467,339.

With the Seattle skyline and the Olympic Mountains to the west, and the looming grandeur of the Cascades to the east, Sammamish rests comfortably in the embrace of Washington state’s famous natural beauty. Home to 36,000 people, the residential community is located on the eastern shore of Lake Sammamish, with Redmond to the north and Issaquah to the south. In a quest for self-determination, Sammamish incorporated as a city in August 1999. Since then the city has been busy building new roads, designing parks and creating other community infrastructure.