North Sound Property News

While we’re waiting for the NWMLS statistics for March to come out, I thought I would go ahead and share some of the market information I am receiving from Altos Research.  If you click on the “Get Reports” button on the header above, you can request to have this report, or one for the city […]

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I am starting a new feature here on the blog to showcase the best examples on the MLS of my favorite architectural styles, Mid-Century Modern and Northwest Contemporary.   For those unfamiliar with those styles, I refer you to my previous article here.
Here are my my picks for the week:

1928 10th Avenue E
Capitol Hill
$1,199,000
MLS#  28024730
Perhaps more modern than mid-century, […]

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Local online real estate brokerage Redfin just released their second annual customer satisfaction report called “The Redfin Advantage.”  One of the areas they are touting heavily is the negotiating advantage that Redfin’s customers are supposed to receive. 
Here’s Redfin’s graphical representation of their advantage:

I thought it would be a fun idea to compare their numbers to my own, […]

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Spring is here, and for the last several weeks, my husband and I have been working on re-landscaping our backyard.  In fact, we have been working on this since we moved into our house.  One of the very first things we did after closing was have a landscaper come over and tear out all of […]

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Further to yesterday’s post about Mukilteo’s economic “micro-climate,” here’s a great article that shows Washington State as a whole is doing much better, economically than the rest of the country, according to USA Today.
 The key for our state appears to be exports (think Microsoft and Boeing), as a weak dollar can actually benefit states like ours that […]

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