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Today’s post is a guest post from TeachStreet, a Seattle startup company like ourselves that is dedicated to providing online and local classes. Thanks for the informative post TeachStreet! In light of the first time home buyer’s credit which was offered earlier this year, many young families and singles entered the housing market as first [...]

With the deadline looming today for home buyers to obtain their tax credit, a bill in the US Congress to amend the closing deadlines for the tax credit has been sent to the President for signing into law, after passage by the Senate and House of Representatives. Given the strong support for the measure, the [...]

We reported yesterday that the extension to the June 30 home buyer tax credit deadline appeared unlikely to pass, as the tax bill it was attached to was shelved by the Senate. Inman News reports today that the measure is back as a standalone bill, which overwhelmingly passed in the House of Representatives. The measure could [...]

The US Senate was considering a bill to extend the closing deadlines for the home buyer tax credit until September 30, but the measure appears dead. The proposal was actually not to extend the tax credit itself, rather to allow buyers who entered into a purchase contract before April 30, 2010, to still obtain the [...]

Many sellers in today’s real estate market owe more on their mortgage than their home is worth. A lost job, reduced income, change in family status, or a need to relocate put these sellers in an awkward situation of not being able to afford to sell the home that they can no longer afford. Banks [...]

I just ran some interesting statistics for the King-Snohomish-Pierce county housing market in 2010. As anyone who is active buying in the market knows, a fair number of properties are short sales, and short sales can represent lengthy bank approval processes and delayed closings. Short Sale Active/Pending Listings – As of June 16, 2010 King [...]

According to an article today in the Wall Street Journal, Congress is now considering an extension to tax credit deadlines for home buyers which were set to expire on June 30. Before you get too excited, the proposed extension only applies to home buyers who were under contract to purchase a home by the April [...]

Buying or selling a home is the single largest transaction that most consumers undertake. The process can be filled with uncertainty, emotion and pitfalls, so the vast majority of home buyers and sellers choose to hire a real estate agent to help them through the process. Selecting an agent is obviously an important step, and [...]

The data feed from the Northwest MLS has come back online after their upgrade. findwell is now showing new home listings and changes in listing status from the past 5 days. Unfortunately, photos of new listings are not yet synchronized. We anticipate those starting to appear on the site later today. Thanks for your patience [...]

The data feed that provides real-time listing updates and property photos to all brokerage websites in Western Washington is still undergoing an upgrade by the Northwest MLS. The NWMLS technical staff currently estimates that the data feeds that provide these updates will be active late tonight. If that schedule holds, our developers will be working [...]