By The Tim on April 17, 2009
According to a post on Aubrey Cohen’s P-I blog Seattle Real Estate News, State may give buyer credit as temporary loan.
First-time home buyers would get their $8,000 tax credit as a state loan at closing, under a measure the state Senate Ways and Means Committee approved Wednesday night.
The federal government is offering the credit to [...]
Posted in Administrative, News | Tagged government_meddling, JohnLScott, tax credit, WA_Realtors
By The Tim on January 29, 2008
Everybody’s pal Christine Gregoire gave a pep talk to the Washington Realtors last week in which she made some interesting comments.
Gov. Chris Gregoire told about 400 Washington Realtors on Thursday that she has been working to meet goals the group has for transportation, affordable housing, education and quality of life.
Gregoire, who spoke a day after [...]
Posted in Economy | Tagged AP, Economy, Gregoire, Olympia, Seattle_PI, tax revenues, WA_Realtors
By The Tim on November 16, 2007
Except of course that some people will actually believe it. Not many, but certainly some.
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From the Washington Realtors’ “Get The Facts Straight” ad campaign. I’m sure I will post more on these over the weekend, they’re just too hilarious to ignore. Thanks to Doug for pointing [...]
Posted in Features | Tagged advertising, radio, WA_Realtors
By The Tim on July 3, 2007
Guess what group is the #3 lobbiest in Olympia so far this year (by dollars spent)? If you guessed “the real estate industry” (primarily the Washington Association of Realtors), you are correct. Since January, they have spent 1.85 million dollars to convince your legislature to do… well, I’m not sure what they want [...]
| Tagged government_meddling, It's_A_Priority, WA_Realtors
By The Tim on April 10, 2007
There have been a lot of real estate articles in the local dead tree outlets the last few days. It’s time for another link roundup before I get too far behind and forget to mention some of them.
First up, it’s Mark Trahant of the P-I with yet another thoughtful, well-reasoned take on Seattle’s housing [...]
| Tagged affordability, Cohen, government_meddling, honesty, It's_A_Priority, link_roundup, Seattle_PI, Seattle_Times, Trahant, WA_Realtors
By The Tim on December 5, 2006
I heard an interesting ad on the radio yesterday. It started off with a generic John and Jane Q. Public talking about how bad traffic is, and how terrible it is that they have to live so far from work, etc… Then Mr. Announcer Guy came on and blabbed something about quality of [...]
| Tagged It's_A_Priority, WA_Realtors
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