Category: News

Here are a couple of blasts from the past for you, courtesy of the Seattle Times archives and real estate Q&A columnist Bob Bruss. Our first question is from November 1993: Q: Our home has been listed for sale with several different realtors for almost two years. We have reduced the asking price by about…

Marlow Harris of the P-I blog Seattle Real Estate Professionals had a great post last week about the insatiable appetite of the American home buyer: I am generalizing from the 100’s of homebuyers I’ve met, plus the watercooler talk from the many agents I’ve known, and I know that buyers list of “wants” quickly become…

Back to work Monday has arrived and my normal routine is to find Bill Fleckenstein musings on the financial markets. I’m fairly sure he coined the term “housing ATM,” among other gems, and he’s at it again with this morning’s take on the markets. Perhaps as a sign that folks are starting to care, the…

Here’s a shocker for you: most people in the Seattle area don’t live all that close to where they work. David Wilson lives in Fremont, Dan Griffiths and Mary Anne Lyman in Tacoma. Andrew Chen’s home is in Newcastle, Roxann Harr’s in Auburn, Nancy Andersen’s in Federal Way. They all work for the same insurance…

Craig King of Real Blogging, the official real estate industry blog, says it’s a great time to be buying or selling real estate. “No matter what you’re selling, conventional wisdom is that the FUD Factor (fear, uncertainty and doubt) tends to freeze buyers in their tracks.” He goes on to say that,”If we do a…