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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

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 Bubble

Rather than editorializing on everything I heard at the Pacific Northwest Housing Summit today, I thought you all might just enjoy some unfiltered quotes from the industry professionals.Bret BertolinSenior Analyst, Washington State Economic and Reven...

topics: affordability, erosion, housing, housing-market, mortgage

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I ll be spending all day today and tomorrow attending a pair of local real estate events. Today is the Pacific Northwest Housing Summit, at which a distinguished panel of industry insiders will be discussing the current market, the future of the mar...

topics: housing, mortgage, real-estate

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

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Estimated 15% of Seattle mortgage holders underwater: http://is.gd/9YpKo #Seattle is #1 again! (for the biggest rental price drops) http://is.gd/9Ytun [spotted by reader 'see it clearly'] #RT @calculatedrisk: Shiller: Homeownership and American Cultu...

topics: condos, developers, downtown, federal-way, mortgage

aggregated from: Seattle's Rain City Real Estate Guide

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

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Time for the monthly reporting roundup, where I read all the local paper rehashes of the NWMLS press release so you don t have to.Here s a link to this month s NWMLS press release: Northwest MLS brokers say housing market in Washington State indicate...

topics: capitol-hill, des-moines, everett, housing, housing-market

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...