Matt Sweet - Ticor Title Northwest

The Residential Transaction Study below includes transaction statistics for 7943 single family dwellings within the 98404 zip code including transactions over the last six months to June 30, 2009. A quick glance at the data reveals that the number of sales per month has gradually increased in the...

  Residential Transaction Study 6/15/2009 Project description: 98329.SDF   monthly market Most recent transaction: 5/29/2009 Market (homes): 2970 month year sales mrkt% $/sqft avg price median Jun 2009           May 2009 10 0.3% $131 $187,829 $202,050 Apr 2009 9 0.3% $145 $283,217 $252,000 Mar 2...

  Residential Transaction Study 6/15/2009 Project description: Fircrest, WA 98466   monthly market Most recent transaction: 6/2/2009 Market (homes): 2039 month year sales mrkt% $/sqft avg price median Jun 2009 2 0.1% $138 $314,700 $314,700 May 2009 6 0.3% $95 $285,750 $283,500 Apr 2009 2 0.1% $1...

Speaking of Google juice... Now that we're all on twitter and enjoying a glimmer of 'real time' web, Google is talking more about "recency". What does this mean? Intuitively, most of us probably want the freshest results when we search for something. But what if we want to search for something th...

At Ticor Title in the Northwest, we've been talking with our community about "bringing the conversation to the web" every day for some time now. And every day new free stuff shows up as vehicles for the conversation. Well, Tumblr has taken this quite literally with it's new "call in audio" featur...

When I was in high school, I wanted to be the next Jimi Hendrix. I was in a band, I spent all my money on a really good guitar, and my big brother Greg was already on a record label. I had a unique name that would make for a good rock star image (so I thought). Then it happened. There was another...

More and more of us at Ticor Title & Escrow in the Seattle area are using Retaggr cards. And one of the most common questions I am asked is how to add a retaggr signature to Outlook. That's what we'll be talking about today.  Here's a previous blog post regarding Retaggr But first, why would you ...

I'm not exactly sure where I heard it first, but somebody said, "If you want to know where the future is, follow the free". As I think about it, we've been following the free for a while now... At Ticor, we provide title insurance and escrow services. That's what we do. But how we communicate wit...

I live Just outside of Gig Harbor perched on a hill above the Burley Lagoon in Wauna/Purdy and I love it. I love the smell of the fresh salt water air. I love being able to look out my window to see if the tide is in or out. I love the sea-level drive along the Purdy Spit in the morning that excl...

Tweetness in Tacoma Let's pretend for a moment that I'm a well established Real Estate agent in Tacoma, WA. I have three listings under $350k and I have a twitter account. How would I leverage twitter to attract web traffic to my listings? Here's how I would do it. Appearance First I would make s...