photo by Flickr user Rob Shenk I’ll be spending the day today at Real Estate BarCamp Seattle, which is basically an ad-hoc conference where real estate professionals get together and share ideas. Most of the attendees will be agents, but there are usually also some mortgage, title, escrow, and other professionals in attendance. The structure…
Cheapest Homes: March 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…
February Stats Preview: Slipping Sales Edition
With February but a memory fading away in our grey matter, it’s time for another monthly stats preview. Most of the charts below are based on broad county-wide data that is available through a simple search of King County and Snohomish County public records. If you have additional stats you’d like to see in the…
Reader Question: What Happens to Long-Empty Homes?
Photo by Flickr user AnyaLogic On today’s open thread Sweet Pea asks: My parents have been casually looking to buy their retirement home and have encountered houses that have been vacant for a year or more. Just wondering if there has been conversation on here about what happens to that inventory? Maybe it’s not trashed…
Real Actual Home Improvement
Spotted this at a home for sale this weekend: I’m just going to let the video speak for itself.