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Welcome to the P-I's Real Estate blog. Here an assortment of real estate professionals discuss contemporary housing issues, facts, analysis and other information about state and national housing, plus rental markets, current real estate conditions, forecasts, gossip and opinion. They all make their living in the real-estate business in the Seattle area. But this blog isn't about selling. It's about sharing what they know or believe about the market -- in their own words.
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More evidence the real estate market has changed:...
aggregated: 25 weeks 3 days ago | 18 views
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This isn't really a Seattle real estate story. It's just a little story about friends, conversations, earthquakes, wool and why I love Microsoft....
aggregated: 26 weeks 4 days ago | 27 views
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Definition: A short sale exists where the debt against the property exceeds the sales proceeds (net of fees and costs) that will be received from the buyer, AND the seller doesn't have other funds to make up the difference. This means that for the sa...
aggregated: 27 weeks 2 days ago | 18 views
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In June the Supreme Court of Washington decided a case involving One Lincoln Tower in Bellevue. The plaintiffs in the case were real estate agents who were not only involved with selling the project's units, but who were also under contract to buy so...
aggregated: 28 weeks 11 hours ago | 17 views
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The history of real estate appraisal harkens back to the days when a sagacious caveman (yes, you could be sagacious even then) sought to trade a bundle of three hundred dinosaur eyelashes (makes a great cave-painting brush) for a little vacation spot...
aggregated: 28 weeks 14 hours ago | 14 views
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I recently received a call from someone interested in listing a co-op apartment. Many people may associate co-ops with condominiums, but they are really quite different. For one thing, condominiums are real property, where a co-op apartment is more l...
aggregated: 28 weeks 6 days ago | 18 views
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Have you ever wondered why when you look on Realtor.com, Trulia.com and Zillow.com the sites do not show the same listings? Well without getting in over my head on technology I don't fully understand, it's because the NWMLS limits the IDX feeds of it...
aggregated: 31 weeks 3 days ago | 20 views
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Recent real estate transactions confirm that lenders live in their own world that bears no resemblance to the world occupied by the rest of us. Without belaboring the details of numerous transactions, it's exceedingly clear that lenders are ignorant ...
aggregated: 33 weeks 11 hours ago | 13 views
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Last year on one of our Issaquah blogs I wrote an article that was not received well by real estate agents. Perhaps the title was a bit too bold, Here Is Why I Don't Give The Listing Agent Feedback ....
aggregated: 33 weeks 2 days ago | 22 views
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What's happening in residential real estate these days? Read below for one broker's observations and opinions....
aggregated: 34 weeks 1 day ago | 20 views
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