The Specialist in Seattle Real Estate
I’ve been curious which social networking sites agents have been marketing their listings on now that newspapers a starting to disappear. More and more sellers are accepting the internet as the primary marketing avenue to promote their homes. And fewer and fewer sellers are demanding their agents take out ineffective ads in newspapers or magazines …
I’m a big fan of Google Maps, especially since Street View came to Seattle. But I’m an even bigger fan of Google Earth because of the fantastic 3-D and detailed rendering that can be done. THIS is the future of real estate mapping and video marketing. Having great video of a property’s interior is huge, …
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 …
Seattle has become almost obsessive in it’s NIMBY (not-in-my-back-yard) attitude. This is actually developed over time from a good thing – community activism, to a bad thing – selfishness political correctness. There is definitely a place for urban planning and people who strive to restrict growth have good intentions. But sometimes their own self -interests …