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Read the series intro: Alternative Brokerages Flourishing Around Seattle Today’s spotlight post in our in-depth series on alternative brokerages around Seattle is $500 Realty. Ray Pepper has been a longtime reader and commenter here at Seattle Bubble. I’ve met him a few times, and he’s a stand-up guy. He even bought Ira and me lunch…
Full disclosure: WaLaw Realty is a Seattle Bubble advertiser Read the series intro: Alternative Brokerages Flourishing Around Seattle Next in our in-depth series on alternative brokerages around Seattle is flat fee lawyer-brokerage WaLaw Realty. My wife and I used WaLaw to buy our home in 2011. WaLaw co-founder Marc Holmes helped us throughout pretty much…
Full disclosure: The Tim was employed by Redfin, and is currently a shareholder. Read the series intro: Alternative Brokerages Flourishing Around Seattle First up in our in-depth series on alternative brokerages around Seattle is the technology-powered real estate brokerage Redfin. Redfin was started here in Seattle in 2004, and currently serves buyers and sellers in…
Full disclosure: The Tim was employed by Redfin, and is currently a shareholder. WaLaw Realty and Quill Realty are current advertisers on Seattle Bubble. For some reason, the Seattle area has become home to the cutting edge of real estate. On the technology front, we’re home to Redfin, Estately, Zillow, ActiveRain (a division of Trulia),…
Here’s an interesting flipping strategy that I haven’t seen before… On Monday I walked by a home 10th Ave East up on Capitol Hill. Here’s what it looked like a while back, via Google Street View: And here’s what it looks like now: The home sold last June for $826,000. So what are the new…