The Specialist in Seattle Real Estate
There’s no question that demand has picked up significantly in the last 6 months. Inventory is way down and more and more homes are selling than are being put on the market every day. Now think about what’s happened to the new construction housing starts in the last 5 years. They have plummeted to record …
I’ve been utilizing the reports for years to help clients decide what improvements make sense for them. This report compares the average cost for 35 popular remodeling projects with the value those projects retain at resale. More importantly it breaks down those projects and values based on location. Remodeling Magazine does a great job of …
The Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller Home Price index which was published today shows that Seattle and Atlanta tied for the third best monthly increases (1.6%) of the 20 metropolitan markets used in their 20-City Composite Index. Washington DC and San Francisco were the only two other cities with more of an increase with a 3.0% and …
Northwest Multiple Listing Service (NWMLS) today reported a 43 percent increase in pending sales of single family homes and condominiums during May compared to the same month a year ago. However there were about 5 percent fewer year-to-date transactions than in 2010. Why the wide discrepancy? During the first five months of 2010 sales were …
I just uploaded the Seattle home sales statistics by neighborhood for December 2009 to my website for clients to access, so I thought I would share them on my blog as well. I have broken out single family residences and condos by neighborhood for analysis. The Talon Title Group compiles this data for me and …