North Sound Property News

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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Why do people buy real estate?
I’m not talking about investors here, I’m talking about the average Joe.  Investors buy real estate for completely different reasons than “regular people.”  And regular people, I’d submit, are who most of us as real estate agents work with most of the time.
So, what makes regular people decide to make […]

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It really is a fascinating time to be working in the real estate industry–being a young-ish pup, I wasn’t in the industry during the 1992 S&L crisis, so it’s interesting seeing how the industry responds to major changes.  I follow everything that is happening with a great deal of interest because by doing so I […]

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I received the following email from one of the lenders I work with yesterday morning:
As you may be aware, our industry has taken some big hits in the last week or so.  Many lenders and investment companies are taking a look at their portfolios and loan programs.  Some companies have ceased business altogether and others are […]

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In honor of studying for my Broker’s Exam, I thought I would write an entry about the vocabulary that really is used in real estate listings. These are not the legal terms that all agents and brokers are required to learn for their state licensing requirements, rather, words that are used in the marketing of […]

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