Opportunities abound for home buyers and sellers, but brokers say “don’t delay” Here are the bullet points from the newest press release from the Northwest Multiple Listing Service, which provides data for most of Western Washington. pent-up demand from homebuyers meant inventory remained tight pending sales jumped nearly 14% from a year ago inventory remained […]

Interest rates for mortgages are now around the low 4% range for a 30-year fixed loan. There’s a general rule of thumb for interest rates that goes like this: for every 1% change in interest rates, you gain or lose 10% buying power. So if you were pre-approved to buy a $500,000 house a few […]

Heating Up! Stats for the Seattle real estate market for February 2019 are out, so here’s the market update condensed into some highlights. Pending sales are down about 14 percent compared to February 2018. Inventory in Seattle rose from January to 1.8 months (0-3 months of inventory is considered a seller’s market). Median prices increased […]

What am I looking at? This is the view from a video camera during a recent sewer scope of a townhouse in Ballard. The camera went through over 100 feet of sewer line on the property before finally hitting the main sewer line out in the street. To our surprise, it was cavernous and brick-lined! Not […]