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Recently I attended a meeting to talk about the strategic direction of our local Multiple Listing Service (MLS). Participants at the meeting were Seattle-area designated brokers. A designated broker is the person ultimately responsible for the transactions and oversight of all agents in a real estate office. Oftentimes that person is also an owner of [...]
Archive | September, 2008
Should I sign a buyer’s agent agreement?
When you are buying real estate, there are times when your agent will ask you to sign a “buyer’s agent agreement”. What is that agreement and should you sign it? The relationship that sellers have with their real estate agent is clearly defined when they place their home for sale. It defines the relationship with [...]
fiona
Say hello to Fiona – the new findwell mascot. She is available to tour you through any house at any time as part of findwell’s Open House Anytime program. Just tell us what homes you want to see and we’ll make the necessary arrangements to get you in to view properties. Most of the time, [...]
walk the walk
Walkability is something important to our customers, and Walk Score makes it easy to find out how walkable your neighborhood is. It’s kind of fun to see how your work or home neighborhood rates. For instance, my neighborhood only scores 23 out of 100 on their scale, but I did find out there was a [...]
The house I want is now pending. Can I still buy it?
Have you ever had your eye on a home that you really liked and possibly wanted to buy, but suddenly it disappears from the listings? You call your real estate agent to find out that the home is under contract with a pending sale to someone else. The home is not sold yet, so is [...]
Online or newspaper? – advertising your home for sale
Sellers ask us all of the time about the best methods of advertising their homes for sale. In the past, the answer was fairly simple. You used to be able to put a sign out front, list it in the local MLS, and place classified ads in your Sunday newspaper. Today’s home buyers spend the [...]
findwell officially launches!
After months of planning and hard work, we have officially launched findwell in the Seattle real estate market! Here is our launch press release. findwell Stirs Up Seattle Housing Market Start-Up Lowers the Cost of Full-Service Real Estate SEATTLE – September 8, 2008: findwell, Seattle’s newest full-service real estate brokerage, launched several new services [...]
Buying a townhome – What exactly is Zero Lot Line?
If you are shopping for a townhome in the Seattle area, you will come across two potential forms of home ownership. One is called Zero Lot Line and the other is a Condominium. The townhome you are looking at could be either one, though Zero Lot Line is more prevalent at the moment in the [...]
