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It’s time for another installment of Real Actual Listing Photos. Once a month (or so) I round up some of the most bizarre listing photos from around the Seattle area and post them here, with brief excerpts from the real actual listing description, and probably a bit of snarky commentary. If you want to enjoy…
It’s time once again to take an updated look at how King County’s sales are shifting between the different regions around the county, since geographic shifts can and do affect the median price. In order to explore this concept, we break King County down into three regions, based on the NWMLS-defined “areas”: low end: South…
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The minds behind ValueAppeal, a long-time friend of Seattle Bubble, have decided to get out of the property tax appeal business. From the GeekWire story: ValueAppeal CEO Charlie Walsh made the tough decision to shut down the service earlier this year, saying the economics of helping homeowners challenge their tax bills for as little as…
Let’s have a look at how listings are doing over the last few months. First up, here’s a view of how inventory has grown so far this year: Since 2013 started at a record-low level of homes on the market, inventory growth this year has been the largest since 2007, and the third-largest of any…