by richtao | Around Seattle
Long-time and life-long locals often commiserate together over how much our area has changed, especially so in recent years as the influx of people/technology/attention/ideas has increased. Aside from worsening traffic and higher prices, there have been other...
by richtao | Around Seattle
The Wall Street Journal takes a stab at recommendations for adding/maintaining affordable housing in pricey cities like ours. Among the recommendations is increasing supply (great idea…if there was affordable land to do so on). Short of creating more land out of...
by richtao | Tips and Tales
In this hot real estate market, we are seeing some newbies and less-experienced agents who are trying to keep up with the fast-paced changes. The financing aspect of the purchase can lead to many of the problems that we encounter. It is very rare to see 0% down loans...
by richtao | Around Seattle
We’re all curious about what our city skyline will look like when all of the new construction downtown has been completed. Here’s a digital simulation of Seattle in the year 2020, when planned and in-progress construction projects have been completed. Wow....
by richtao | Around Seattle
The Wall Street Journal recently published an article about the strong real estate market here and how much we have in common with other expensive west coast cities like SF and LA. There are a few things to correct in the article, such as median price in Seattle...