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	<title>North Sound Property News</title>
	<link>http://northsoundpropertynews.com</link>
	<description>A Real Estate and Community Weblog Serving North King and South Snohomish counties</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 01:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Real Estate Photography</title>
		<link>http://northsoundpropertynews.com/2010/06/06/real-estate-photography/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 01:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandy</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the points I always make to sellers in my listing presentations is that photography is the key to making their listings pop online, and having a listing that &#8220;pops&#8221; is part of what it takes these days to pique buyer interest and get an offer - assuming you are not listed at some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Banking Crisis Comes to Mukilteo</title>
		<link>http://northsoundpropertynews.com/2010/04/22/the-banking-crisis-comes-to-mukilteo/</link>
		<comments>http://northsoundpropertynews.com/2010/04/22/the-banking-crisis-comes-to-mukilteo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 22:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandy</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The first time I drove by and saw the Whidbey Island Bank banner fluttering where a CityBank sign used to be, I couldn&#8217;t remember what the banner had replaced.  But when I saw a banner had been installed at the former City Bank location next to the grocery store where I usually shop, it suddenly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Straight Talk About Real Estate</title>
		<link>http://northsoundpropertynews.com/2010/04/20/straight-talk-about-real-estate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 23:15:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandy</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[About a month ago, I was asked to contribute a real estate column to the Mukilteo Beacon, our local paper.  I was honored to be asked and last week, my first column was published.  How cool is that?  The column will be featured in the Beacon on a monthly basis, the second Wednesday of each [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For Love or Money</title>
		<link>http://northsoundpropertynews.com/2009/07/04/for-love-or-money/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:22:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandy</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There are as many approaches to what it takes to sell a listing in today&#8217;s market as there are listing agents and sellers.  For most of the last couple of years, something on the order of 90% of the listings that went on the market didn&#8217;t sell, and neither agents or sellers knew at first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Time Buyer Seminar</title>
		<link>http://northsoundpropertynews.com/2009/06/09/first-time-buyer-seminar/</link>
		<comments>http://northsoundpropertynews.com/2009/06/09/first-time-buyer-seminar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:54:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandy</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you know that the $8,000 first-time buyer tax credit has been &#8220;monetized&#8221; and can now be used towards the down payment and closing costs for qualifying home purchases through the end of November?  This exciting news and more information of interest to those thinking of buying a home for the first time will be covered at a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mukilteo Real Estate Market Statistics</title>
		<link>http://northsoundpropertynews.com/2009/02/15/mukilteo-real-estate-market-statistics/</link>
		<comments>http://northsoundpropertynews.com/2009/02/15/mukilteo-real-estate-market-statistics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 19:49:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandy</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[market statistics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[the real estate market]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snohomish County Market Statistics</title>
		<link>http://northsoundpropertynews.com/2009/02/13/snohomish-county-market-statistics/</link>
		<comments>http://northsoundpropertynews.com/2009/02/13/snohomish-county-market-statistics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 22:33:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandy</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the Offensive Offer</title>
		<link>http://northsoundpropertynews.com/2008/10/18/on-the-offensive-offer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 22:19:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandy</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dude, Where&#8217;s the Bottom?</title>
		<link>http://northsoundpropertynews.com/2008/09/19/dude-wheres-the-bottom/</link>
		<comments>http://northsoundpropertynews.com/2008/09/19/dude-wheres-the-bottom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 21:59:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandy</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[So maybe you noticed I haven&#8217;t been posting a lot lately.  Maybe you were wondering why?  Well, two reasons really.  One, I couldn&#8217;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&#8217;ll [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Truth About Short Sales</title>
		<link>http://northsoundpropertynews.com/2008/07/10/the-truth-about-short-sales/</link>
		<comments>http://northsoundpropertynews.com/2008/07/10/the-truth-about-short-sales/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:28:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandy</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is the first truth about short sales: there is no &#8220;one truth&#8221; about short sales.  If you ask 10 different agents about what it&#8217;s like to work short sales, you&#8217;ll probably get 10 different answers, which will be influenced by the agent&#8217;s personality and tenacity, the situation surrounding the short sale, the lender itself, [...]]]></description>
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