The Specialist in Seattle Real Estate
It used to be the way to know who the players were. All the top agents toured other broker’s listings once a week and previewed all the new inventory. But times have changed. And with rising gas prices and the vastly improved addition of photos with listings on the internet, agents have gotten away from …
Many Buyers do not understand the difference between a mortgage broker and a mortgage banker, and how it relates to their purchase. Just a quick overview… A mortgage lender lends you your funds from a specific lending institution that they are associated with. Like Countrywide, Bank of America, or Wells Fargo, to name a few …
I recently ran across this graph (not copyrighted, as far as I can tell) about the emotional cycles a buyer goes through during the purchasing process. It got me to thinking about how this chart can also be used to show the emotional process during the real estate market “boom – bust – recovery” cycle …
Well, it had a good run. Ron Sparks consistently gave us great updates for the local real estate markets we serve and filled us with interesting statistics and informative news to analyze. But alas, all good things come to an end. This was a great source of statistics for those closely following the local real …
Condo inventory in the metro downtown Seattle may be starting to tighten. Back in the real estate boom days of mid-2005 metro Seattle condo supply was just around 1.4 to 1.5 months of inventory. We are no where near that and probably won’t see that heady of a market again for a long time. But …