Due to an overload of work and a shortage of good planning on my part, I’m forced to fall back on a cheap filler post for today. Here’s a supplement to Tim’s Top Ten of Twenty-Ten. It’s the ten most popular posts of 2010 as measured by individual page views: Goldman: Seattle Home Prices to…
Category: Features
Price Games Hall of Shame
Back in the dark ages of real estate, home shoppers had to rely on real estate agents to give them pretty much any information about homes that were on the market. A listing agent could change the price of a home by some insignificant amount, pop it to the “hot sheets” the buyers’ agents relied…
Reader Question: Buying Foreclosures at Auction?
I received this email from a reader wondering about foreclosures: I have an idea for a series of articles. I’m interested in non MLS ways of purchasing homes. I’d like to know how to find and properly research homes for sale by the lenders or auction companies directly. My focus is Snohomish County, however I’m…
Friday Flashback: “You’re not going to see the prices come off that much.”
This is one of my favorite gems, dating from November 2007, just a few months after home prices in the Seattle area began their long decline. Robert Mak asked the question: “Where’s the bottom?” In order to find the answer, he has a host of industry insiders give their marketing pitches. Unfortunately the original video…
Offbeat Home Search Sites & Tricks
I pretty much take it for granted that if you’re looking for real estate these days you’re using Estately, Redfin, or one of the brokerage search sites to search homes for sale. When you’re looking for additional public record information and neighborhood information, you might head to Zillow, or straight to the public record websites….