Washington Real Estate Blog

I meant to update with this post about two weeks ago.  This represent our November mid month update to previous posts regarding our highest demand real estate markets in Washington State.The lists below compares real estate activity from October 18th thru November 15th 2007.  It indicates the mar...

Several years ago I read a prediction that successful brokerages of the future would either be ...associated with a national franchise  OR a small family owned mom & pop operationWell the future is here and this describes some changes that I've observed this week.  First - I've noticed many "powe...

At about $0.85, yesterday's average cost per click (visitor) for Google Adwords was the lowest I've ever seen.  Usually the national average (from our perspective) is around $1.65 per click.  Looks like Google may be feeling effects of the mortgage and real estate industry woes.  If you've ever c...

I spent some time crunching citywide numbers today and determined that on average our available housing is overpriced by 13%.  The average price of recent pending/sold homes in Edgewood is $193 per square foot and the average price of available homes is $221 per square foot.Like I said, this is a...

I was admittedly a little slow getting on the recycle band wagon but soon realized that it saves us about half of our solid waste expenses.  Since our contractor out of Puyallup serving the Edgewood area only takes plastic, paper & metal we're left with disposing of glass along with regular garba...

Our marketing enhancement system has been running at nwRealty.Com for a few months now and we're starting to hear success stories from our customers.  To us, the prominent indication of value is measured as "click-thru" traffic ... we send a monthly average of 18 prospective Buyers and Sellers di...

After six months Google has finally released the update of its "Page Rank (PR)" data.  This is but one factor used to determine your website's position in search engine results.  Since starting this blog in July of this year I've monitored numerous indicators of direct value to our Washington rea...

This data was released a couple of weeks ago and compares websites for companies based in Washington that also cross the border into other states (mostly in the western states). Multi-State Sites:The Windermere and Redfin sites slipped somewhat while the other sites continued at a rather level ra...

I fell a little behind in updating traffic trends for Washington real estate web sites as observed by third party monitors.  This report was released a couple of weeks ago and reflects our site at http://www.nwrealty.com/ catching up to the on-line patronage of the NWMLS public website.  Unlike t...

This is our end of month update to a previous posts regarding our highest demand real estate markets in Washington State for our web site at www.nwrealty.com.The lists below compares real estate activity for the months of September and October 2007.  This indicates the markets where we feature th...