Couple of interesting developments in local real estate search this week. First up, local discount brokerage Findwell (a Seattle Bubble advertiser) announced today that they are partnering with Estately to provide a more user-friendly search experience. Sounds like it should be a good match for both parties. A good search tool was the one (big)…
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Need a Little Green? MS Paint to the Rescue!
Okay this is just too funny not to post. Over in my favorite forum thread Detrimental Listing Photos Everett_Tom spotted this gem [update: the listing photo has since been changed—original screenshot here], where the (presumably) brown grass in the listing photo has been extremely poorly painted over in bright green in the only photo on…
Are Home Price Drops Around Seattle Mostly Over?
I was thinking recently about the claim that we’ve been hearing lately from some sources that Seattle home price declines are over. The primary evidence they seem to provide for this hypothesis seems to be the slight bump in some Seattle-area median prices, and the uptick in sales. I’m not convinced, but rather than just…
More of the usual Boeing 787 news…
(emphasis added to quotes below) Flashback to April 26, 2005: Orders fly in for Boeing 787 Currently the 787, due to enter service in 2008, has a two-year head start on the A350. November 7, 2006: “Good, steady progress” on 787 as Boeing works to lighten up Boeing’s 787 is on schedule. Early practice production…
Homebuying Tips and Traps from 1996
I was looking through the real estate section Half Price Books recently and stumbled upon an interesting book: Tips and Traps When Buying A Home, by Robert Irwin. The edition of this book I was thumbing through was published in 1996, and was just chock full of all kinds of helpful advice, such as this:…