ARCHIVED BLOG POSTS
2011
With the news of Bothell’s downtown revitalization project home developers have aggressively been building new home communities in and around Bothell. Currently there are 539 active home listings in the Bothell area, 141 our new homes, 101 short sales and the rest are re-sales. Traditiona...
04/29/2011
There are a few really neat features that you can use on the Internet to view Bothell new homes as they appear on the street and in the neighborhood. Sometimes you'll be able to use Google maps to see a picture of the home and the other houses in the neighborhood and other times you may have...
04/29/2011
The above chart shows a 3 year home sales trend comparison for Bothell and Lynnwood and a one year comparison for Mill Creek on homes priced over four hundred thousand. The black line represents Bothell, The orange line represents Lynnwood and the green linerepresents Mill Creek. Sales in Lyn...
04/28/2011
Whether you are searching the market for potential homes to buy or are putting up a Bothell real estate property for sale, you should be aware and familiar with the legalities of a real estate contract. By fully understanding the contract you can avoid a potential battle over this agreement that...
04/28/2011
There is a lot about credit that you may not completely understand and it is important to know at least the basics when you are applying for a Bothell home mortgage. It is always best to have your credit in the best state it can be before making an application. It is a guarantee that the lender i...
04/27/2011
Seattle award winning green builder Martha Rose, president of Martha Rose Construction, is continually looking for ways to lower their environmental footprint in the homes they build by carefully selecting and assessing the building materials they use. As the movement to carbon-neutral buildin...
04/27/2011
When gas prices start to get around $4 a gallon we start to see people's behaviors change. They don't take the SUV to run errands instead they use the more fuel efficient car and bundle their driving activities together. In 2008 when we saw gas prices around $4 a gallon we saw a decrease in the ...
04/26/2011
You may have heard about mortgage fraud before, but may not understand how it relates to Shoreline real estate. Mortgage fraud is growing at an alarming rate and the more you know about this type of fraud, the better you will be at avoiding it. Mortgage fraud involves criminal actions that ...
04/26/2011
Closed new home sales for Bothell, Lynnwood and Mill Creek areas may need to pick it up in the last week of April to equal February ‘s 27 closings and March's 25 closed sales. With 15 reported closed sales in April we will need a good push in the last week to equal or surpass February and March'...
04/25/2011
Selling a Shoreline condo is much different than selling a house. There is a different target market that needs to be addressed and a lot of special things that need to be pointed out as selling features. If you are selling a house, one of the things that may be mentioned is the yard and what ...
04/25/2011
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