Small but Gorgeous!

We love the amazing designs and layouts that can be found in today’s small/tiny houses. Local company Lindal Cedar Homes has some neat designs for pre-fab small homes. We just need a beautiful piece of waterfront land to plunk this down on!...

2016 Mortgage Rate Predictions

One of the most common questions we get asked is “where do you think interest rates are going?” It’s a good question, and hard to answer; most people get it wrong. At the start of 2015, industry analysts were predicting rates around 5%: we ended up...

On Winning…

Experience and intuition are two of the most important aspects of being a real estate professional. We’ve predicted the winning price of a couple of listings that our clients made offers on in the past couple of weeks, but we also had to help them decide if...

Stories from the Field – Craziness in Ballard

Winter is a relatively slower time for the real estate market, with the key word being “”Hot neighborhoods like Ballard remain HOT, and winter may mean that a seller only gets 15 offers instead of.  We had a buyer competed with 43 others for a Ballard townhouse that...