North Sound Property News

Yesterday I sat down and compiled a set of real estate statistics for the city of Mukilteo going back two years.  I usually look at these statistics on a monthly basis but yesterday was the first time I compiled those into a spreadsheet to look at the market over time.  My goal is to go back as far as […]

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I am finally coming back from hiatus to blog here, and the first thing I want to do is to catch up on Snohomish County Market Statistics.
The market here in the county has been quite slow for homes since about August 2007 due to the credit crunch and what is now recognized as more widespread […]

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One of the problems we commonly see in the current real estate market is that buyers and sellers do not tend to agree on the value of any house.  Rare is the buyer today whose buying strategy is to pay full asking price for any home on the market.  And rare is the seller whose intention is […]

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So maybe you noticed I haven’t been posting a lot lately.  Maybe you were wondering why?  Well, two reasons really.  One, I couldn’t see blogging much during the summer, because once summer finally arrived, it was fantastic.  If it comes to a choice between being inside blogging or outside doing just about anything else, I’ll […]

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Here is the first truth about short sales: there is no “one truth” about short sales.  If you ask 10 different agents about what it’s like to work short sales, you’ll probably get 10 different answers, which will be influenced by the agent’s personality and tenacity, the situation surrounding the short sale, the lender itself, […]

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