{"id":26069,"date":"2013-04-01T00:00:14","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T07:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/?page_id=26069"},"modified":"2013-04-04T15:47:46","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T22:47:46","slug":"announcing-seattle-bubble-the-brokerage","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/announcing-seattle-bubble-the-brokerage\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing Seattle Bubble: The Brokerage"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Seattle, WA | April 1, 2013<\/em> — After spending over seven years as a blog, building trust and providing local real estate news, statistics, and commentary without the sales spin, Seattle Bubble announced today that the Seattle area’s most popular daily real estate news site is pivoting to become the Seattle area’s newest real estate brokerage.<\/p>\n

\"Tim“I’m really proud of everything I’ve accomplished with Seattle Bubble throughout the real estate bubble and the ridiculously predictable massive crash that followed,” explained founder Tim Ellis, as he announced the news. “Now that home prices have hit bottom and are on their way back up, what better time to pivot the brand into a money-making powerhouse brokerage?”<\/p>\n

By exploiting the same blunt honesty and unique real estate insights that led to such heights of fame as appearing on KING 5’s Evening Magazine<\/a>, Ellis will bring a breath of fresh air to an industry that has historically been known for neither honesty nor insight<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While most brokerages collect a commission based on a percentage of your home’s price, Ellis decided to take a different approach with Seattle Bubble: The Brokerage.<\/p>\n

Home buyers and sellers who utilize Seattle Bubble’s services will not be required to sign any contracts or pay any fees up front, nor will any commission be collected by Seattle Bubble. Instead, after a successful closed sale, the client simply decides how much they feel the service was worth and pays Seattle Bubble that amount.<\/p>\n

“Any way you run the numbers—even when clients choose their own price—it turns out selling homes is a lot more profitable than writing blog posts about home sales,” Ellis remarked. The business model is inspired by the wildly successful San Francisco-based Humble Bundle<\/a>, which has used the choose-your-price model to earn tens of millions in revenue since 2010 selling video games for as cheap as one cent.<\/p>\n

“People have already proven to be irresistibly attracted to both choose-your-own price models as well as the honesty and expertise I have provided over the years through my blog,” boasted Ellis. “Offering them the ability to put those same qualities to work in buying or selling their home is just the next logical step for Seattle Bubble. There is no doubt that we will rapidly become the biggest and most influential real estate brokerage the Seattle area, if not the entire nation.”<\/p>\n

If you are interested in hiring Seattle Bubble to sell your home or to help you buy a home, just fill out this brief form<\/a> and Tim Ellis will call you to schedule a free consultation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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