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This post is partly a follow on to Ardell s earlier New Bottom Call post and comments on where our greater Seattle / Bellevue area home prices might go over the next few years. When people ask me How soon are home prices around here going to recove...

topics: bellevue, housing, housing-market, mortgage

aggregated from: Seattle's Rain City Real Estate Guide

This post is partly a follow on to Ardell s earlier New Bottom Call post and comments on where our greater Seattle / Bellevue area home prices might go over the next few years. When people ask me How soon are home prices around here going to recove...

topics: bellevue, housing, housing-market, mortgage

aggregated from: Seattle's Rain City Real Estate Guide

Earlier today I posted my thoughts on the King County Housing Market for 2010 and received this question on twitter:@VAF_Investments asks @ARDELLd This downward price expectation kind of goes against your view late last year& What s changed?General...

topics: housing, housing-market

aggregated from: Seattle's Rain City Real Estate Guide

One of the problems with today s real estate inventory of homes for sale, is that it is difficult to determine if the asking price is a fair price. Today I received an email noting that the price of a home was reduced by $200,000. It is today $300,00...

aggregated from: Seattle's Rain City Real Estate Guide

Even though I do not have my photo on my business cards or signs at present, my clients have on occasion asked me this question when we enter a house where the agent s picture is on the sign.Even when the agent s photo is not on the sign, some ask me...

topics: real-estate, realtor

aggregated from: Seattle's Rain City Real Estate Guide

First and Foremost&HAPPY BIRTHDAY RHONDA PORTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!The Pacific Northwest Housing Summit will be held this Thursday, March 18th at the Seattle Center. The details of who will be speaking at that event are in the link, and Rhonda promised to ...

topics: housing, mortgage, real-estate

aggregated from: Seattle's Rain City Real Estate Guide

Homebuyer saves 83% on his Buyer Agent fee by using Trulia Voices.Around noon on Sunday a homebuyer named Patrick posted this question on Trulia Voices:Need a buyer s agentPatrickBoth Buyer and SellerSeattle, WAI plan on making a $1M offer on a hom...

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I m just watching King 5 news tonight where they are covering a story about a home in Puyallup that is in process of being foreclosed. Sadly, that s not news. What is news is that a mom and her kids have decided to move in claiming adverse po...

topics: mortgage, puyallup, tacoma

aggregated from: Seattle's Rain City Real Estate Guide

Five to one, more people are asking me if they should sell their home vs. if they should buy one. That said, I have more buyer clients than seller clients. Those buyers are simply not asking IF they SHOULD buy. The most difficult scenarios are those ...

topics: neighborhood, redmond

aggregated from: Seattle's Rain City Real Estate Guide

As the days wear on, we are learning more and more about HUD s 2010 Good Faith Estimate. Yes, we ve had the 2010 GFE to review for quite some time and HUD has offered several updates on their RESPA FAQs&however it seems to be taking a lot of prac...