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. Wow, it’s been over two…
Category: Features
Cheapest Homes: July 2013 Edition
Let’s check in again on the cheapest homes around Seattle proper. Here’s our methodology: I search the listings for the cheapest homes currently on the market, excluding short sales, in the city of Seattle proper. Any properties that are in obvious states of extreme disrepair based on listing photos and descriptions will be excluded. This…
Friday Flashback: “Homeownership in Jeopardy”
It’s been a couple of months since our last Friday Flashback. Here’s one from an April 2006 Seattle Times article written by our old friend Elizabeth Rhodes: $405,000 Median house price in King County Ann Dickhoff’s house purchase typifies a milestone in more ways than one. Like many other parents of adult children, Dickhoff was…
Post Roundup: Mortgage Interest Rates
With mortgage interest rates having risen a full point over the last two months, there has been a lot of renewed talk about how interest rates will affect the housing market. We talked about this recently (Déjà Vu: Mortgage Interest Rates Panic), but I thought now would be a good time to post a collection…
Cheapest Homes: June 2013 Edition
Let’s check in again on the cheapest homes around Seattle proper. Here’s our methodology: I search the listings for the cheapest homes currently on the market, excluding short sales, in the city of Seattle proper. Any properties that are in obvious states of extreme disrepair based on listing photos and descriptions will be excluded. This…