Seattle Real Estate

While renting might sometimes feel like you're flushing a hefty portion of your income down the drain, as it turns out, renting might make the best financial sense for a few years. According to a reporting from Zillow's breakeven horizon metric, (a system measuring the number of years it takes af...

2013 is looking like a seller’s market but not so much to warrant audaciousness. Inventory in King County is approximately half of what it was from a year ago and this combined with low interest rates is causing homes to sell quickly and at prices much higher than the market low at the beginning ...

The NWMLS released the January 2013 numbers earlier this week and of course the Seattle Times large headline is negative (surprise, surprise).  The Seattle Times headline is "King County home prices dip to March lows" but then they say in the smaller headline that the prices are up 11% from a yea...

The weather outside is frightful; dropping into the 30s and 20s this week in Seattle and surrounding areas! Now that winter is settling in nicely, you may have noticed a spike in your energy bills… and now you’re wallet is scarier than the snow flurries out your window! before you crank the therm...

Many homeowners have participated in a century old tradition that looks for guidance from St Joseph to sell their home, a universal patron know as the carpenter and foster father of Jesus Christ on earth. The tradition claims that if you bury a statue of St Joseph in the home's yard, it will help...

Earlier this month, Seattle University received the approval from the City Council for a plan that would more than double the school’s square footage of campus space on Broadway & Madison St. Right now the University is spread across 2.04 million sf of the 4.8 acre campus. According to the Daily ...

We just wrote the other day about how the low the residential inventory was in Seattle and gave examples of what was going on in different neighborhoods such as Madrona and Maple Leaf.  The Northwest MLS just released the November numbers and they showed how love inventory really is.  King County...

If you missed the Ewing and Clark open house in Everett yesterday, you can catch another one this Sunday Dec 2, from 1:00-3:00pm.  This extravagant corner DOUBLE LOT has ample space indoors and out. Inside boasts tons of natural light and a spacious floor plan with living/family/dining rooms down...

Real estate inventory is extremely tight all over Seattle. I will give you an example, in the Madrona neighborhood, there are 16 active listings and 12 pending listings - so there are almost as many homes under contract as there are homes active. Click the link for a little more detail on Madrona...

Remodeled Leschi cottage available for lease starting December 1st. The Leschi home has been updated throughout and includes 3 bedrooms and 1.75 bath.  The outside includes a fenced back yard and parking for up to four cars. The Leschi rental is located just above Leschi Park and just north of Fr...