We’ve seen plenty of these kinds of articles and news reports about the foreclosure situation down in southern California, but I don’t think many people ever would have expected to see such a piece written about the Seattle area: Foreclosures mean work for “trash-out” specialists Contractors who specialize in cleaning and maintaining the nation’s growing…
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Puget Sound Foreclosures Continued Upward Trend in December
Here’s your December update on Foreclosure activity in King, Snohomish, and Pierce counties. First up, the Notice of Trustee Sale summary: December 2008 King: 660 NTS, up 105% YOY Snohomish: 296 NTS, up 67% YOY Pierce: 578 NTS, up 79% YOY The graphs below are derived from monthly Notice of Trustee Sale counts gathered at…
Pre-Weekend Potpourri: Microsoft Layoffs, Foreclosure Aid, Downfall
It’s a pretty slow news day today, what with most people still taking time off for the new year. So I thought this would be a good time to throw a bunch of smaller stories together into one post. First off, let’s hit a topic that has been on a lot of people’s minds lately:…
Weekend News Roundup
Here are a few local real estate stories to kick off this snowy Christmas week. Aubrey Cohen, Seattle P-I: It’s refi — not buy — in Seattle’s housing market Unusually low interest rates have spurred a run of mortgage refinancings in the Seattle area, but not necessarily more home purchases. … Andrew Gledhill, an associate…
HOPE for a Whopping 312 Homeowners
I thought this was somewhat interesting. You may recall the “Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2008,” about which we held a poll back in July. One of the primary aspects of the Foreclosure Prevention Act is the HOPE (Home Ownership Preservation Entity) for Homeowners program, which was intended to: …insure up to $300 billion for 30…