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As promised last week, it’s time to check up on median home sale prices broken down by distress status: Non-distressed, bank-owned, and short sales. As of March, the non-distressed median price for King County single family home sales sits at $432,000, up 6.7% from a year earlier and up 1.6% from February. Not much of…
Many articles, papers, and opinion pieces have been written about the detrimental effects that foreclosures can have on a neighborhood. For example, foreclosures in your neighborhood allegedly lower home values, increase crime, and make refinancing harder for homeowners who live nearby. While these studies and stories may be technically accurate, their focus is too narrow…
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[City of] "Snohomish unlikely to approve smaller 'apodments'" http://t.co/M2n4zwOXUl via @EverettHerald ->