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Foreclosure tracking company RealtyTrac came out with an article a few days ago that’s making the rounds among various news outlets: Monsters of the Housing Market: Vampire REOs and Zombie Foreclosures Here’s an excerpt: Vampire REOs are bank-owned homes that are still occupied by the previous homeowner who was foreclosed on. On the surface these…
Based on some articles and comments that I have read, it seems that there are a lot of misconceptions about how the foreclosure timeline works. Any time we’re talking about foreclosures it’s important that we understand exactly what the various terms mean, so let’s take a moment to look at the foreclosure timeline in Washington…
I’d like to try something a little different. Since posting on here tends to break up the various topics that make up the whole of the housing market, I thought it would be useful to put together a “state of the market” post once a quarter or so that brings everything together.
We’ll cover the basics of what’s going on in the local housing market right now, with links to relevant recent posts in case you missed them…
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. The idea for this series…
As regular readers here may know, after the world’s longest home search, I finally bought a house in May 2011. Specifically, we closed on May 20, 2011 and paid $224,950. Last week I happened to pull up my home on Zillow, and was greeted with an interesting surprise. According to Zillow, I purchased my home…