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This article doesn’t really relate directly to the Seattle area, but it was in a Seattle area paper, and there’s a tidbit in there that I thought was rather amusing, so I decided to post it here anyway. Mark Nash, a Coldwell Banker broker and real estate author whose book “1001 Tips for Buying &…

The Olympian comes in a day late to the party with what I would call a cautiously pessimistic report on December’s numbers: Fewer homes sold in South SoundMarket has room to slide, real estate watchers say After 11 months of red-hot South Sound home sales in 2005, sales dropped by double digits in December, raising…

Taking a bit of a break from the residential real estate world, let’s have a look at the commercial real estate picture. 2005 was good to commercial real estate: Retailers in the Seattle and Bellevue area gobbled up store space at the fastest pace since the 1990s, responding to a strong regional economy and reports…

The Tacoma News-Tribune recaps the year’s top stories, and the ever-climbing cost of buying a house tops out their list: This was the year of the homeowner. Despite rising interest rates and housing bubble warnings, home prices in the South Sound continued to soar. The median sale price for a home in Pierce County hit…

Okay, I’ve got a bit of catching up to do. First up is a look back on the year’s numbers in Thurston County: The blistering pace of the South Sound real estate market continued in 2005, with the percent increase in number of homes sold and in median prices reaching double-digit territory for the January…