I was browsing listings and came across this home: 3227 Evergreen Point Rd Medina, WA 98039 Listed at just under $5 million, it appears to be the most expensive currently-listed foreclosure in the Seattle area. Last sold as for $2.5 million as raw land in 2007, on which the buyer promptly plopped down this apparently…
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Real Actual Listing Photos: Mega Mountain Edition
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…
The Shadow Inventory Next Door
I thought it might be interesting to share the saga of the house literally next door to me. Before we bought our house we noticed that the home next door had been foreclosed, but the now-former owners were still living there. Just last week they finally moved out. I decided to spend some time digging…
Cheapest Homes: July 2011 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…
Knife-Catcher: The Tour, Offer, Tour Meat Grinder
[Note: This is part of an ongoing series on Tim’s personal homebuying experience.] I thought I would continue the Knife-Catcher series by focusing a little more on our specific home selection process. Here are the basic steps we went through when looking for a home: Look at listings online. Narrow list, tour homes. Either: Eliminated…