Washington Real Estate Blog

Just a few observations to share ...I've received ID Theft/Phishing emails pretending (spoofing) to be local credit unions.  Since these credit unions are nearby, the ID thieves have somehow identified my geographic location and are using corporate style marketing intelligence. Debi received a Ph...

Earlier today I commented on a Tag Cloud question posted to AR and it prompted me to take a look at my own tag cloud.  The size and color of each tag is proportional to the number of posts with that tag.  So, who you are ... or at least what you tend to blog about tends to jump off the page.Accor...

The City of Edgewood filed the SEPA application and submitted a building permit on September 6th for its new 15,000 sq ft Civic Center and City Hall facility.  This includes a new portion of road connecting to parking facilities for 74 cars, 6 of which are designated as handicapped spaces.  The r...

According to Washington REALTORS®: "Washington State continues to defy national trends in home prices, lending, and sales," and they go on to state that "in Washington State, foreclosures and sub-prime lending occurred at lower rates than just about anywhere in the nation."Now ... According to NW...

My son is a high school freshman this year and I'm trying to consistently encourage him to do his best so that he'll be accepted into a good university of his choice.  While considering the difficulty he sometimes has in composing essays and research papers, it hit me that there is probably a cor...

I've gotten in the habit of using shortcut keys whenever possible.  Things like "Control + A" for selecting everything, "Control + C" to copy it in the clipboard and "Control + V" to paste the copied material into the application I'm currently working on.  It didn't seem like it at first, but usi...

As a matter of routine, I compose a press release for every new member of our real estate network.  Just like blogging, this takes time and discipline.  If you recall, the standard format for a press release include sections about the respective parties in the announcement.   I was quite frustrat...

Recently some new companies have begun distributing Listing Flyers by email.  While claiming their email advertisements are not SPAM, they quickly site compliance with ... "USC 1618 Title III by the 105 US Congress, Section 301, Paragraph (a)(2)"  This law passed after corporate lobbyists made su...

This week I've observed about a 30% increase in the costs of Google and Yahoo Pay-Per-Click ads.  I attribute this to the seasonal decline in on-line real estate activity, causing the PPC advertisers to bid more for falling supply of potential viewers of their sites.If you're a PPC advertiser, re...

Observations of Washington real estate states by third party monitors were released this week and my prediction of traffic flow leveling off for our regions leading real estate sites was only halfway fulfilled.  Unfortunately, our site at http://www.nwrealty.com/was reported with others as experi...