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5 "Deal Breakers" that can Blindside Home Buyers
Posted 08/13/2010 by Rob Schmaus
Purchasing a home can be a complex endeavor for even the most well prepared home buyer. You’ve diligently saved for your down payment, followed the market, researched agents and now you are ready to make an offer on your dream home. Don’t let these 5 “Deal Breakers” come between you and your new home...
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Vacation Homes: Looking Better All the Time
Posted 07/06/2010 by Noelle Bortfeld - Windermere Real Estate Blog
Whether you’re in the market for a lakeside cottage, a mountain cabin, a ski chalet or an island retreat, the vacation home market is warming up. If you have strong credit scores, this could be the right time to take the plunge...
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Upgrade to Premier Agent Status at Zillow.com
Posted 05/19/2010 by Rob Schmaus
I would like to introduce to you the Zillow.com premier agent program. In my continuing attempts to keep my clients on the cutting edge of modern real estate marketing strategies and techniques, I have decided to align myself with Zillow.com.
Zillow.com is constantly developing new ways to make real estate searching and buying easier for the consumer. This is why I have partnered with them. I would like to share with you a few of the reasons I feel so strongly about Zillow and their goals for developing their company...
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Market Report: The North Sound Market
Posted 05/17/2010 by Rob Schmaus
North King and Snohomish counties hold a wide range of price points, and in today’s market, price points are the best way to determine what’s selling and what’s not.
We’ll start in Snohomish County, on the high-end. Homes over a million dollars in Edmonds and Mukilteo have stalled… more like hit a wall. In 2009, Edmonds saw 6 homes sell for over one million dollars. 3 of those sales were 3rd party properties; indicating foreclosures or 'short sales'. We have seen a large number of older 1970s-90’s homes with views, that at one time would’ve been valued over a million dollars, drop well below that mark...
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Unprecedented Opportunity to Buy Real Estate
Posted 05/10/2010 by Rob Schmaus
I have discussed what I have seen happening recently in real estate markets in the north Seattle area.
I have discussed what I think will happen in the market in the coming year, 2010.
The tone has not been positive, but the beauty of real estate is that one man’s famine is another mans fortune.
Right now, or in the next 3-6 months will be the absolute peak of the buyer’s market. We are nearing th bottom, It is just ahead of us now.
Wait until the end of this year and the bottom the market will have past you by and the best opportunities will be gone...
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Bi-Monthly Market Analysis
Posted 05/01/2010 by Rob Schmaus
King/Snohomish counties- After an obvious rebound from early 2009 the question that all of my clients are asking… Have we hit the bottom?
The answer to this question, in this agent’s opinion, is a big fat NO.
This is why:
-Inflated sales from First Time Home Buyer Credit
-Inflated sales from Gov. subsidize interest rates
-Coming changes in Condo lending
-Unemployment
-Banks Coming Release of winter foreclosures...
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