If you have been on the fence about investing in real estate, 2017 could be your year. Diversifying your portfolio while creating passive income is one of the top reasons people get into real estate i...
Pending sales are up but new listings are down across the Puget Sound area. Listings with mutually accepted offers (pending) reach their highest levels in January 2017 since back in 2005.
This continues to repeat the same story that we’ve ...
Tech companies are a dime a dozen in the Puget Sound region and many have more than 100 employees but only one has plans to add an additional 100,000 jobs by 2018. Amazon has plans to increase its workforce by 30% by mid-2018. Jeff Bezos, Amazo...
There are many benefits to home ownership. Many of the benefits of home ownership are tied into finances even benefitting owners at tax time. Here are some of the financial benefits home ownership can bring.
Ownership Makes You Money
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Zillow May Be Overestimating the Value of Your Home and the Accuracy of the “Zestimate”
Buying and selling a home is arguably one of the biggest decisions you’ll ever make. Find the right home then sell and hope you gain more at the sa...
Amazon paid $19.2 million for two adjacent properties in the Denny Triangle neighborhood with potential plans of building a fifth downtown high-rise tower. These two properties take up one-half block on the west side of seventh Avenue between B...
So you’ve been to some open houses, gone on some tours, and now find yourself in an unusual dilemma: two houses that seem perfect for you. In a way, it’s a good problem to have — better to have multiple options than none, right? But it ca...
Everyone wants a discount. Obviously. But is cheaper always better? If you’ve lived long enough to know that that is not the case you might be doing a little more savvy shopping these days, especially when it comes to looking for a real estat...
It’s no surprise that Washington state has more tech employers than just about any other state in the nation. Dozens of tech companies in Washington state break the 100+ employee mark and Amazon plans to add another 100,000 jobs to that numbe...
Seattle is the fastest growing big city in the country right now, which means land prices, building costs and rental prices are out of control. Warehouse rents are skyrocketing faster than anything around the Puget Sound according to a report b...
Bellevue will be getting its first condo development in over a decade. Set to be completed in 2019, One88 is Bellevue’s first condo project since the housing crash.
Vancouver BC based Bosa Development, also responsible for Seattle’s Insi...
And it’s Bellevue!
The Global Innovation Exchange, or GIX, has established for the first time a Chinese research university’s physical presence in the United States. This new graduate Institute in Bellevue, run by the University of Washi...
The millennial generation makes up most of the buyers in the real estate market currently. Knowing what appeals to the millennial generation where home buying is concerned is a very smart move for anyone looking to sell or even to rent a home i...
Emerging Trends in Real Estate is one of the most highly regarded annual industry outlooks for the real estate world and is now in its 39th year. The market looks towards 2018, providing a regional snapshot in all 78 major markets across the co...
Times are different. We are not in a recession and we’re not in a housing bubble; this is really the way things are and prices are booming…according to Matthew Gardner, a local economist.
The dynamics that led to the last housing co...
Winter weather is wet weather. In Western Washington that can be anything from rain, to snow, to a mix. This wet and harsh weather gets tracked in on the floor from the bottom of shoes creating a nice mess that will have you feel like you spend...
Four years ago, Leonard Steinberg stunned the brokerage world when he announced he was leaving Douglas Elliman for Compass, then a startup brokerage with just $150 million in its war chest.
“It was a very tumultuous time, because I too...
Bill Gates net worth is almost $98 Billion, or at least it was when this article was published. Buying or building a house is a common billionaire dream but for Gates’, the word lavish doesn’t even begin to describe Xanadu 2.0.
The compo...
Compass, a real estate company based in New York created in 2012, is working on closing a buyout deal with Pacific Union International Realty. This brokerage is one of the largest on the West Coast with sales reaching $14 billion last year.
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The real estate business is constantly impacted by outside forces, everything from the housing market to zoning laws and new businesses. To discuss the current trends, Eastside agents met in Bellevue for the Commercial Real Estate Leaders’ ...
Bellevue is home to many large tech companies and they could be adding one more to their collection. According to anonymous sources, seeking to protect their business relationships, Facebook is looking to expand on the Eastside and is lookin...
The west side of Washington is known as a home for technology, but one up-and-coming company is getting its start in Eastside.
Conversion Logix offers digital advertising, media strategy, and marketing agency services and specializes in...
Seattle is booming, Bellevue is growing, and the housing prices continue to rise as more people move to the city. All the more reason to hire a seasoned real estate professional who knows the area when selling your luxury home.
Article by Mary...
Some of China’s biggest technology companies are flocking to Bellevue, lured by a promising public-private partnership and an unexpected recruiter: Microsoft.
Huawei, China’s telecommunications giant, is among the Chinese firms that hav...
The China Alliance of Real Estate Agencies toured the Seattle area in November 2017. This membership is responsible for about 60% of home sales in China and they love the Seattle area and explain why foreign home buying is surging in this reg...
The Seattle and Bellevue real estate markets are expected to be the nation’s top performers in 2018, according to the Emerging Trends in Real Estate Report by the Urban Land Institute and PwC (a nonprofit education and research institute....
Seattle’s real estate is one of the hottest markets in the nation. Seattle is leading the country in home price increases and we’ve almost doubled our home price growth over any other US city just in the last 11 months.
Seattle’s hom...
According to GeekWire, there have been more than 100 out of town tech companies set up in the Seattle region recently, doubling that number over the last three years.
The Chinese tech giant Baidu opens a Seattle based office, creating an additional U.S. outpost to expand its artificial intelligence and the cloud.
Baidu has been well-known as the leading Chinese language Internet search engine. It covers fi...
The Puget Sound Business Journal had a write up of the wealthiest ZIP Codes in the Puget Sound region throughout King, Kitsap, Pierce, and Snohomish counties. It was determined by a proprietary formula, which includes net worth, home value, p...
If you’re in the market for a new home in Seattle, a condominium can be a charming and convenient option. Condos are often less expensive to buy than houses or townhouses, and they can offer conveniences you might not otherwise be able to aff...
The nationwide homebuilder Toll Brothers has acquired a large development in downtown Bothell where plans on building new homes. MainStreet Property Group, a critical base real estate company, has sold a large development property in downtown B...
One of the key questions that potential sellers typically ask an agent is, “What is the market value of my home?” Determining fair market value requires experience, knowledge and honesty in finding accurate comparable sales.
In answering...
Seattle is Booming! That’s no secret, and with the recent visit from Chinese President Xi Jinping Seattle will even more be the forefront of business and growth. If you’re considering moving to the Seattle area or relocating within Seattle,...
Homes with small detached living spaces or potential to build an additional living space on the property are growing in popularity in Seattle. Since the city has changed the zoning laws to allow property owners to build Accessory Dwelling Units...
Every year Money Magazine comes out with a new list of Best Places to Live in America alternating between small towns and small cities. This year the list is of America’s best small cities to live in. To qualify as a small city on the Money M...
Belleuve is a wonderful city full of culture, job opportunity, and some of the most beautiful scenery in the Pacific Northwest. Bellevue has a wide selection of neighborhoods and home types to offer every buyer. This is a very desirable area to...
Recently residents from China have topped the list of foreign property buyers in America. In the months of March 2013 to March 2014 Chinese buyers spent $22 billion on American real estate up from $12.8 billion in the previous year. Washington ...
24/7 Wall St. has just confirmed what many residents of Western Washington have known for years, that Bellevue is one of the best cities in America to live in. 24/7 Wall St. concluded its data about the best cities in America to live in by revi...
The Good, Bad and Ugly of Selling a Home Yourself
At some point in a homeowner’s life, they have thought about selling their home themselves. It’s a rational thought; why not? I can save money, right? Also known as a FSBO, For Sale by Ow...
Selling a home can be stressful. Will I sell the home at asking price? Will I find buyers quickly? Will the transaction go smoothly? While maybe the answers to those questions are not known, one thing is certain, there are several things you ca...
Selling a home can be stressful. Will I sell the home at asking price? Will I find buyers quickly? Will the transaction go smoothly? While maybe the answers to those questions are not known, one thing is certain, there are several things you ca...
