Seattle’s Best Neighborhood is….
What is Seattle's BEST neighborhood? Yeah, we're not wading into this one, but neighborhood/life info site Niche has ranked our neighborhoods based on a variety of factors. Find out how your area stacks up! http://bit.ly/1UeTI8N
STORIES FROM THE FIELD: Don’t be Evil!
One of the most important lessons we learned from our very first real estate sales manager is that when someone shows you who they are, believe them. We’ve met many “interesting” people in this business, and in this hot market, sometimes the listing agents who are in...
AirBnB Regulations coming to Seattle?
The Seattle Times published an article about the Mayor's desire to regulate AirBnB rentals in the city. This is a hot topic, as the hundreds of online comments attest to. We have noticed an increasing amount of interest from investors and from homeowners with extra...
Adding Color to Your Home
Here are some great ideas on how to decorate using color. Whether you currently own or rent, you can use these ideas for inspiration. It’s always interesting for us to see how people decorate their homes. Do you have an interior decorator’s eye for style and color?...
STORIES FROM THE FIELD: Bad behavior abounds in a crazy real estate market.
We’ve talked about how agents have poorly represented aspects of a buyers financial credentials, often to the harm to their own sellers. Another thing we’ve seen is that agents and their sellers are unprepared for multiple offers. Buyers end up submitting an offer and...
Growing Pains in Our Growing City
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 "growing...
We All Want Affordable Housing, but How and When?
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...
STORIES FROM THE FIELD: Our job as agents is to pave the way, not get in the way
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...
Future Seattle – 2020!
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. ...
Is Our Housing Market Turning into San Francisco’s?
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 (it's...