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Local real estate salesman Mack McCoy, writing on the now-defunct Seattle Real Estate Professionals blog in October 2007: I tease the bubble bloggers! The people on this board have extensive experience in the real estate world, and while there may be differences of opinion among them, the fact is that their opinions deserve to carry…
Full disclosure: The Tim is employed by Redfin. Redfin (my employer) just launched a fun new feature today: Redfin Collections. With Collections you can curate publicly-visible galleries of listing photos from nearly all of Redfin’s markets across the country. Although I was not at all connected to the team that developed this feature, as an…
Reminder: For a regular serving of wacky listing photos throughout the month, from all across the country, check out Looney Listing. 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,…
Let’s say you own a home in the Seattle area that sports an unfinished basement. Do you: Leave it unfinished and use it as storage? Partially finish it and use it as a workshop? Finish it and use it as a rec room? Fully finish it with bedrooms and a bathroom? Something else? I’m curious…
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…