To lower costs, King County announced that non-emergency personnel will have ten days of unpaid "furlough" in 2009. This includes the Recorder's Office. So, for what it's worth, transactions will not be able to close on the following d...
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May you live in interesting times... A curse and a blessing. I've noticed people re-ordering their priorities. Perhaps it's not about consumption. Enough of that. It seems to me that to do business today the buyer must perceive that t...
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Though it's much too early to draw any conclusions about 2008, in the 1st quarter there was a general retreat towards 2006 prices around the Puget Sound. Three exceptions: -Seattle condos which continued to appreciate by 2% -West Seattle ...
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Conventional and FHA loan limits have been raised to $567,500 in King, Pierce and Snohomish counties. Before this, if your Conventional loan amount exceeded $417,000 you were into a Jumbo Loan with higher rates...often over a full percentage point m...
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So how much has Seattle real estate appreciated over the last five years? How good an investment was it really??? Annual median prices by neighborhood in the five years from 2003-2007: Total City of Seattle--- 49% from $315,000 to $469,000 W...
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Finally completed the annual market report that I've been putting out since the 90's. Some of the news was counter-intuitive. For example, not only did prices rise in 2007, they rose in the second half as well. Here it is... The Fillius Report ...
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Selling your house and getting it closed! The state legislature hath decreed that the buyer can not waive the right to receive certain disclosures. This means that even if the buyer waives the right to terminate the contract in writing, if there a...
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This last summer everything changed in real estate... for now. In Alejandre v. Bull, the Washington State Supreme Court ruled that short of proving fraud, a buyer does not have a potential claim for economic loss due to a s...
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