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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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I've been noticing a pronounced trend in online and print media 'hype' marketing. We see the breathless excitement of Zillow and Trulia with much emphasis on athletes' or stars' homes, details of their foreclosures, their prices, and their lives. I s...
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Selling a house in this environment can be difficult. The last thing a seller wants is to get into contract with a buyer that will not close, or even worse, cannot close. That takes the property off the market, and in a declining market that can be c...
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Interesting water rights case out of the court of appeals, division three involving relinquishment of water rights. In Washington, water rights that attach to a parcel of land can be lost (relinquished) through a period of nonuse. In the first sens...
aggregated: 3 weeks 2 days ago | 2 views
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Have any of you, home buyers, sellers or Realtors been involved with an appraisal since the HVCC, The Housing Valuation Code of Conduct has been in force? As of May 1, 2009, the appraisal process has changed drastically. Appraisals are now ordered th...
aggregated: 3 weeks 3 days ago | 4 views
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Real estate agents take a lot of hits from certain segments of the population, and some of it is undoubtedly deserved. But a lot of it is not. The topic of this piece will be pricing: Pricing of listings and pricing of offers....
aggregated: 5 weeks 9 hours ago | 5 views
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Zillow invited industry professionals and homeowners to give them advice on how to make Zillow more useful - for homeowners, homebuyers, and real estate professionals. How would you improve Zillow or it's competition Trulia and Cyberhomes? What motiv...
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As a real estate agent I've often said that the only way I can carpool is by accident . I don't work in a big box building all day I work in my car. Due to the nature of my career, I must drive alone to pick up buyer clients. Once clients are in th...
aggregated: 9 weeks 4 days ago | 6 views
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Some time ago I signed up for the Zillow real estate blog email updates. I tend to think of blogs like these as the 'People Magazines' of real estate, since every one of them seems to have a section of celebrity real estate news, which personally, I ...
aggregated: 9 weeks 6 days ago | 2 views
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I have often written about tracking the market with sales ratios. It has been my belief for several years that sales ratios, as defined by Months of Inventory, gives us a very clear picture of the strength of any real estate market....
aggregated: 11 weeks 2 days ago | 5 views
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Do something, even if it is wrong! Start an online newspaper like I did....
aggregated: 11 weeks 5 days ago | 3 views
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