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It’s a bit past time for our detailed look at October foreclosure stats in King, Snohomish, and Pierce counties. First up, the Notice of Trustee Sale summary: October 2014 King: 389 NTS, down 25% YOY Snohomish: 216 NTS, down 32% YOY Pierce: 343 NTS, down 26% YOY The number of trustee sale notices was down…
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Surefield, the local 3D home tour brokerage launched in April by a pair of Redfin veterans and a former Nvidea tech wizard, is expanding their mission to attack buyer’s agent commissions… from the seller’s side. Here’s an excerpt from their press release: Surefield is dramatically lowering buy-side commissions to bring the U.S. residential real estate…
Hat tip to the West Seattle Blog, who yesterday posted about a City of Seattle advisory committee on affordable housing. The city is gearing up to attempt to “develop a bold agenda for increasing the affordability and availability of housing in our city by convening a Housing Affordability and Livability Advisory Committee.” Here are some…