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Anxiety among home buyers “incredibly high” as they vie for unpreceded shortage of homes across much of Washington state Here are the bullet points from the newest press release from the Northwest Multiple Listing Service, which provides housing market data for most of Western Washington. active listings were down 40% compared to the same month […]

September’s home sales reached highest level since June 2018 Here are the bullet points from the newest press release from the Northwest Multiple Listing Service, which provides housing market data for most of Western Washington. September’s closings marked a jump of nearly 28% from the same month a year ago inventory is down 43% from […]

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 […]

Wire Fraud On the Rise Wire fraud has been on the rise in the past few years. Since real estate is an industry where large amounts of money are involved, many scammers are increasingly devoting their efforts to target home purchases. According to the FBI, cyber-criminals stole or tried to steal about $19 million from […]