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This web log records my activities with nwRealty.Net, Inc. and nwRealty.com. I endeavor to remain objective but frequently express my personal opinions.
RECENT BLOG POSTS
I noticed the NWMLS announcements this weekend welcoming new Olympia and Thurston County members to the NWMLS ... and announcing the new Olympia Satellite Office.  I wasn't really surprised, but didn't expect this to happen at this time.  This is similar to what happened with the ole Tacoma-Pierc...
10/01/2007
The following observations are accumulated from 25 closed Whatcom County residential real estate transactions during the week of 9/24/07 thru 9/28/07.  THESE NUMBERS ARE ALL AVERAGES.Selling Price:  $297,742 Listing Price:  $311,500 Original List Price:  $326,770  Specifications:  3 bedrooms, 2 b...
09/29/2007
The following observations are accumulated from 517 closed Washington residential real estate transactions during the week of 9/24/07 thru 9/28/07.  THESE NUMBERS ARE ALL AVERAGES.Selling Price:  $390,992 Listing Price:  $400,282 Original List Price:  $483,682  Specifications:  3.2 bedrooms, 2 ba...
09/29/2007
The City of Edgewood received a preliminary short plat application to subdivide a 1.34 acre parcel located at 9526 24th Street East.  The proposal will result in two residential lots within the Single-Family-Three (SF-3) zone.  The application was complete with Tacoma-Pierce County Health Departm...
09/29/2007
The City of Edgewood received a preliminary short plat application to subdivide the 3.77 acre parcel located at 87th Avenue East and 27th Street East (parcel #04200987014).  The proposal will result in six residential lots within the Single-Family-Three (SF-3) zone.  The application was complete ...
09/29/2007
The rare thunderstorms and heavy rain during this morning's wee hours should have tipped me off that today would be one of "those days".  By the time I finally crawled from the covers to begin my sleepy eyed computer routine, Google had already been round the dance floor a time or two.  That's ri...
09/28/2007
The City of Edgewood Planning Commission held a public hearing at 6:30 PM on September 27, 2007 for citizens to provide input for proposed ammendments of Edgewood's Comprehensive Plan and use of real estate.  Attending the hearing were four Planning Commissioners, three staff representatives, one...
09/28/2007
In recent posts I've mentioned how MSN's new Live Search is gaining a greater share of total web searches ... apparently causing the recent loss of Yahoo's market share.  This recent surge of growth prompted me to again look for their "webmaster guidelines" and this morning I found success at thi...
09/26/2007
In my routine efforts of monitoring the search engine world as it pertains to Washington real estate, I visited SearchEngineWatch.com and stumbled upon some recently released Nielsen research (the TV ratings people).  Using their "megapanels" Nielsen monitors which sites Internet users use to sea...
09/24/2007
Over the past several days I've noticed some dramatic changes in Google's search engine results.  Some old reliable "Washington Real Estate" place holder sites seem to have dropped into oblivion and others are bouncing in and out of the first page results.  This is typically referred to as the "G...
09/24/2007
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