Year: 2005

Here’s another update on the continuing focus on the “spend or save” question when it comes to property & real estate tax revenue windfalls. The Seattle Education Association chimes in on the side of “spend,” requesting a big piece of the pie. The Seattle Education Association (SEA), which represents the district’s teachers, instructional aides and…

Fun! New! More ways to research how best to throw huge piles of money you don’t really have into the local real estate market! Finding the home of your dreams can take months of research. But thanks to new online tools — including aerial maps that incorporate residential listings — potential home buyers now have…

We’re venturing a bit further outside the Seattle area than usual for this story, but I thought it was interesting enough to merit that. From the Gray’s Harbor paper, The Daily World comes this story about an up-and-coming planned community of half-million to million-dollar homes in Pacific Beach: On a cliff in the woods overlooking…

County Council candidates in Snohomish are taking notice of the housing market insanity and (of course) attempting to gain votes based on their position on the matter. The hot real estate market and its expensive “starter castles” are a key hurdle for the homeless, first-time home buyers and senior citizens, several Snohomish County Council candidates…