Here’s a question for the group from Ray (of 500 Realty), who shares an anecdote of a buyer who had their own agent asking for assistance from a listing agent to see a home when their agent was unavailable: The buyer asked for assistance in seeing his listing because his agent was elsewhere. He reminded…
Category: Features
Reader Question: Sudden Surge of Foreclosure Notices?
I received this question from a reader last week: We live in a rental house which has been in various phases of the foreclosure process for over 5 years (landlord died in 2007 after taking max cash-out refi’s on all 10 of his properties). Trustee sale dates for the house we are in have been…
Over a Third of New Listings Pending in Two Weeks
Full disclosure: The Tim is employed by Redfin. Last week Redfin released September housing market data, so let’s take a look at the rate at which homes are going under contract in two weeks or less in the Seattle area, compared to San Francisco and the national rate: No big change in the relationship between…
Real Actual Listing Photos: The Lonely Pianos
If you dig Real Actual Listing Photos, I would like to recommend that you check out Looney Listing. Strange listing photos freshly posted three days a week, from all across the country. It’s time for another installment of Real Actual Listing Photos. Once a month (or so) I round up some of the most bizarre…
Friday Flashback: “Kendra Todd agrees with Lar”
As some long-time readers will recall, Larry Cragun is a former Issaquah real estate agent who received a brief mention in a previous Friday Flashback for his characterization of bubble blogs as “the babbling and whining of children.” But he really deserves to have a Friday Flashback all to himself. So that’s what he gets…