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- Zillow.com Adds WindermerePosted on September 30, 2009
- Home foreclosure filings up more than 100 percent in Seattle areaPosted on August 13, 2009
Local Headlines- Mortgage applications fall 4.4 percent last week July 28, 2010
- Struggling Suncadia resort, Kittitas County reach settlement over financing, development July 27, 2010
- Benaroya Co. moving HQ to Bellevue July 27, 2010
- Seattle home prices rise in May, but still far below 2007 highs July 27, 2010
- FTC bans 8 marketers from selling mortgage relief July 26, 2010
- Whidbey Island Vegetable Garden Tour ends with a party July 24, 2010
- Price points: What homes your money will buy in the Seattle area July 23, 2010
- Local mortgage rates July 23, 2010
- Looking to save while beefing up home security? Do it yourself July 23, 2010
- Plans to protect tiny toad may cost developers July 23, 2010
- Real-estate calendar July 23, 2010
- Bailout watchdog to audit housing program July 23, 2010
- 'Rescoring' can score better credit and get that loan July 23, 2010
- Renting rooms one way to avoid foreclosure July 23, 2010
- Government tries to recoup some Fannie, Freddie losses July 23, 2010
01Oct2008
Income Levels v. Home Prices
Economists often pay close attention to the ratio between how much local incomes have been rising and how much local real estate prices have been climbing. If real estate prices rise faster and farther than do local incomes, then it is a sure sign that local real estate is moving into a range in which it’s either difficult to afford or simply unaffordable.
Continue ReadingLeave a Comment23Sep2008
The Affordability Index
This is a rather strange indicator of how affordable the homes are in a given area—strange primarily because it makes assumptions that may or may not be true. Generally, the index notes the amount of income needed to purchase an area’s median-priced home in a transaction with a 20% down payment and an institutional mortgage loan for the balance of the purchase price.
Continue ReadingLeave a Comment15Sep2008
When To Buy in a Buyer’s Market
In a buyers’ market, sales are obviously slower than in a sellers’ market. What constitutes a buyers’ market, after all? An abundance or over-abundance of homes on the market for sale.
Continue ReadingLeave a Comment08Sep2008
Why Advertise in Newspapers?
The primary way homes were marketed in the past was in the newspaper classifieds, where hundreds of brief advertisements vied for the reader’s attention, most of them failing to get much notice. But all of this has changed, largely due to the Internet.
Continue ReadingLeave a Comment05Sep2008
Your Equity in a Second Home
One of the things we are reminded when the real estate market surprises us with a serious slowdown is that it is very good to have a reasonable amount of equity in a home, especially if we’re never certain when we may want or need to sell it.
Continue ReadingLeave a Comment13Aug2008
Are You at Home?
Increasingly, we’ve realized that there is something magical about looking at a house that you may want to buy and make your own. When a home looks right, when it strikes you from the first moment you enter the door, your mind almost inevitably begins to imagine how your belongings, your furniture—indeed, your life—would look in this house.
Continue ReadingLeave a Comment29Jul2008
When To Buy
Financial advisors in our newspapers and magazines love to write about this subject, suggesting that we buy when sellers are willing to negotiate, when interest rates are low, when others are buying, etc., etc.
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Why Wait to Buy?
“Bottom-fishing”: a scary term often used when real estate prices have eased and seem on the verge of easing further. We don’t advise it.
Continue ReadingLeave a Comment15Jul2008
Why Pay a Commission?
It has generally been true that many people wonder, especially when home prices have skyrocketed, why they should pay a commission to a real estate professional or work with a mortgage professional when there are cheaper ways to buy, sell or finance a home.
Continue ReadingView Comments (1)07Jul2008
How Long Will Your Home Last?
We don’t tend to think of houses aging to the point of being uninhabitable, but it can happen if homes are not maintained with care. The same is even truer of the appliances in our homes, without proper care they can become unusable.
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