An addictive easy way to shop for homes
So you’re buying a house and you’re thinking to yourself, “I want a deal, and in this market I should be able to find someone who is represented by an amateur (who blew their staging and marketing) and will sell their house for less than it’s worth. Or better yet, someone who has to sell or they’ll be foreclosed on.”...
Have you ever done the math to see when and how buying a home pays off? It’s not in the first couple of years – that’s for sure. By many accounts, you maximize profit after about 10 years in a home, at which time you have built up some equity, the cost of buying and selling your home (Realtor commissions,...
The market in the Seattle area isn’t taking quite the beating it is in the rest of the country, but the number of homes on the market is growing – there are nearly 50,000 homes and condos for sale in western Washington now, up from about 30,000 when we launched in December. Some of that is the normal cycle of...
The Estately team ends up explaining what we do to people – we’re small and we don’t have the name recognition that millions of dollars of venture capitol will bring you. People always seem to ask a few of the same questions though: Q. How are you different than, uh, what’s it called, uh, Zillow? A. We have nearly every...
If Jim Duncan sold real estate in the greater Seattle area, we would recruit him for Agent Match. He’s good. Here’s one of his clients: We overlooked this home because it only had a photo of the outside, but the home next door to it was for sale and I found a virtual tour through Trulia- it is beautiful. Depending...
My suspicions were confirmed by Strange Maps the other day: as a Seattlite I am surrounded by a lot of dudes. Not just locally; all along the West Coast it’s as though we’re still feeling the effects of the gold rush of decades ago. I’m guessing the Microsoft area of Redmond bring up the stats considerably, especially given their 75+%...