I’m hoping the readers of Seattle Bubble can help me out with something. First, a little background on my perspective. My parents bought their first house in 1987, when they were about 30 years old. They paid $45,000 for the modest 1,288 square foot, 3-bedroom, 1.75-bath house pictured below. They refinanced once in the ’90s…
Interest Rates Hit All-Time Lows: Scare Tactics in 3…2…1…
Various sources are reporting that mortgage rates have fallen to their lowest point ever this week, with the average 30-year fixed-rate loan priced at a paltry 4.69%. Of course, you know what that means… As soon as rates start to climb a few tenths of a percentage point, we will no doubt be subjected to…
Real Actual Listing Photos: Multi-Million-Dollar Edition
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 stems…
Guided Tour: King County’s New Online Property Records
If you’re like me and you tend to do a lot of public records searches when you’re researching properties, you have probably noticed that King County has given their online property records a big face lift. As far as I can tell all the same information is available as before, plus a few new bonuses…
How Far Off are Sellers’ Original List Prices?
With the power of Tableau and over a year’s worth of detailed King County sales data, here’s another interactive visualization I whipped up for you. The map below is color-coded to show the average discount of the final sale price from the original list price for each zip code in King County. Below the map…