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I’ve added some really nice ‘Before and After’ shots to the Home Staging Photo Gallery page, and also (this is embarrassing) fixed the slideshow so that photos of my friend Butch Vision flipping upside down in his kayak in the middle of the Grand Canyon didn’t arbitrarily pop up during the show.
(Whoops. )
Although, as one [...]
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King County just introduced new regulations requiring all sellers of properties with onsite sewage systems to have their on-site septic system inspected by a King County Licensed On-Site System Maintainer (OSM). The inspection must be completed and a copy of the report must be given to both the buyer and Public Health before the transfer [...]
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Appraisals that used to be ordered and completed within a week are taking two weeks or more these days, which means that a typical closing time is changing from 30 to more like 45 days. Just something for you buyers and sellers to keep in mind when planning ahead and deciding on contract terms.
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I just posted a new page on this website with forty ‘Before and After Home Staging’ photos of my listings, you can click on the photo to the left to check it out.
‘Home staging’ is the easy way to describe it, but in reality these homes were transformed through preparation (mainly de-cluttering and creating flow), good [...]
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Here are some stats showing Seattle and Eastside real estate activity through July 2008. The following graph shows the total days on market (CDOM) for houses and condos in King County, beginning in May 2007. As you can see, average listing time before a sale has nearly doubled during that time.
The triangles show that the [...]
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Here are two graphs that show some interesting trends in King County home sales over the past year, from April 2007 through June 2008. It’s also an example of how easy it is for a graph to not tell the whole story.
Both are for King County houses and condos, new and resale. Pink columns show [...]
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At a recent office meeting our broker pointed out that he’s hearing more and more about scams involving people preying on homeowners in foreclosure.
One of the methods is for someone to approach a homeowner who is facing foreclosure, and make an arrangement in which the owner signs their home over to them via a quit [...]
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