Is the Seattle Times Intimating Seattle isn't that Special?

faster

Price it right? Don't count on getting last years prices?
Fix it up? Make Repairs?

WTF is going on here?!? Houses just sell, slap a price on em, stick a sign in the yard and it's sold by tomorrow. Seattle is Special!

Eight tips to help your house sell quickly

Price it right

...For example, if neighboring homes of similar sizes and types sold for $600,000, don't price it at $675,000, even if comparable properties fetched that price a year ago.

Fix 'er up

Once homes are priced right, sellers must be willing to make repairs, spruce up landscaping, clean, paint and even remove items from their homes to win buyers' attention, professionals said.

biliruben

That article is out of the OC.

No worries. We're still special.

Jazen

Funny thing, went up to Magnolia to play softball this weekend, passed a ton of open house signs.

faster

At least the Times is a bit more honest than the P/I.

It may not be much, but it's a start, it's the first hint of things aren't as good as last year I've seen in either paper....and now another hint.

What gives? Local home-sales market is softening, but prices keep rising

Last month the median sales price of King County's single-family homes hit $469,000,up 9.6 percent compared with the previous May and the highest price this year. Yet there were 44 percent more houses to choose from than a year earlier, and buyers made 9.5 percent fewer offers.