Your Guide to the Seattle Real Estate Market
This is not legal advice, and you should not rely upon it. For legal advice, consult an attorney, not a blog. [This post was updated 4/22. New paragraph below.] In today’s low-interest-rate, low-inventory, recovering-from-the-bubble housing market, there are more buyers than there are sellers. This leads to routine instances of multiple offers, where only one buyer [...]
Removing the Must Appraise Clause. BEFORE you as a buyer of a home agree to “remove the must appraise clause” you need to know that means more cash from you the buyer of an undetermined amount. You also need to know the Finance Contingency does not usually cover not having enough Cash to Close. Cash [...]
Gone are the days when you can advertise “must see!” to sell your home, as if people have to come into your house as the first step in the home buying process. You can scream that from the roof top all you want, but unless you have a location that would cause anyone and everyone [...]
I’m writing this post because I am often asked how to get started teaching Realtor clock hour classes. There are a million ways to answer this question. Do you want to know what the state requirements are? I can easily point you in the direction of Washington State’s required forms but the form won’t tell you how [...]
I like this first picture of a TV placed in a main floor or lower level bedroom because honestly, here in Seattle, this is often the case. In fact this particular photo reminds me of the house I sold for Dustin Luther, the owner of Rain City Guide, a few years back. The light streaming [...]
I was running some stats the other day for Kirkland, Bellevue and Redmond home prices and the graph below came out a bit oddly, as if all prices are trending to 200 to 207 per square foot. I say “oddly” because some went UP to there while others went DOWN to there. That is not [...]
The basic Real Estate questions in 2012 have been: 1) Are prices UP or DOWN, going UP or DOWN…at bottom, in recovery, recovered? 2) Is Inventory low…will it get better…where is the shadow inventory? To answer these questions I am using data from the Lake Washington School District, as it represents a good mix of [...]
One of the exciting things about being a real estate agent is you can really integrate technology in a meaningful way on an every day basis. I don’t have all the gizmos and gadgets just to “have” them. I can’t imagine doing business without them. I recently upgraded to the Lumia 900 which I think [...]
Not every client asks me where they SHOULD live. But the question comes up from time to time, and often from family memb
The first step in buying a new construction home, unless it is an already built “spec” home, is to choose the lot. Howev
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