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I agree, but not because of a townhome sale. There were always townhomes (condos) available for $300,000 or less. My statement says “single family homes”.

There’s a whole slew of attached new construction on Redmond Ridge that were built with prices under $300,000 by Quadrant (and sold) since I wrote this post. I wish they would build more of those. They sold pretty quickly.

There are also some single family homes selling. I have one in escrow for $300,000. I’ll let you know where when it closes. It’s a bank owned property. I am very happy for my clients. I have new clients who want a $300,000 single family home close to Microsoft.

Will let you know how that goes…I’m optimistic!

I saw several 1800 SQFT townhomes in Kirkland below $300K!!

Regarding the comment you made on this blog…
So even if we see prices dropping back, we will not soon see the day when the increase will be declared a bubble that is about to burst. In fact a modest correction is well warranted, but I do not see single family homes dropping in price back to where they were in January of 2005 for many, many…if ever…years. So yes, in the single family home market, anything decent in the lowest of price ranges should still be grabbed up. By March of 2007 the opportunity to get any bargains in the entry level single family home markets, will likely be gone for good.

…I think every statment above has been proved wrong.

I remember when I worked for a telecom company in Atlanta. We had a young lady there that didn’t really want to “work.” She took a course and became a real estate agent and quit to make some “good money – fast.”

When I bought my first home, the agent, (if you can call him that) kept telling me what I could afford and kept showing me homes outside of my price range. He was all like “You can do 200K!” and I’m all like “150 MAX!” I finally called the lady that was training him and told her that I didn’t want him to show me anything else, because he never listened to me.

This lady (A dear little Korean lady.) was a Million dollar club something or other and she knew exactly what to do. She came over (and took over) and we found a home within my budget and travel constraints. I suffered with that guy for about a month, though. She just knew things. Like what kind of PVC pipe does the house have? And remove this foam around the bottom of the home and the home inspector she arranged for (that cost me ~$250) saved me 3,000 bucks. You can’t beat an informed Realtor who actually listens to you and has good advice (and good contacts). I just wish there was an easy way to tell the neophytes (chuckleheads?) from someone who can actually add to the process.

You sign an agreement to be exclusive with someone and then you find out they suck. I guess it’s no different than surgery. You need to find a little bit out about your surgeon before you have them cut out your kidney.

Sorry guys,

I can’t tell you that prices will never be lower or never be higher. Taking the blue or red pill won’t change that.

Today I’m just hoping the market is slow enough on this rainy November day, so that the offer I am faxing is not met by a higher competing offer at the other end.

So put your voodoo hexes on the market today for me, will ya? I need the market to be less competitive for my buyer client today.

Thanks.

But more to the point of your link, you don’t look at one building to judge an area. I remember looking at one building in Seattle proper where when I walked through I thought “what a mess.” This was about 2 years ago, when things were still very hot, and that particular building did end up having problems selling. So two years ago looking at that one building you’d have concluded Seattle’s condo market was bad at the time.

Also, that unit is barely in King County, and the Snohomish County condo market which it is very close to is clearly having problems. It’s also apparently rather close to the freeway. Anyway, given location it’s hardly evidence of what “Seattle” is doing.

I don’t talk AT you…please don’t talk AT us. If we are having a conversation, it’s hard to tell. Looks more like you are beating a drum against someone not in this room.

We deserve better. We do try our very best. If you just run around the internet to make a splashy comment, do it somewhere else. We are not who you are speaking to or about…or so it appears. This is not a forum! If you aren’t talking TO us, then go away.