Tax credit fuels home-sales bounce, but will it be just a blip?
The first-time homebuyers’ tax credit helped resuscitate the Seattle real-estate market in 2009. The market remains fragile, most insiders say, and the outlook for late 2010, after the credits are scheduled to expire, is especially murky.
By Eric Pryne
Seattle Times business reporter
In residential real-estate annals,… Read More
Effects of the tax credit (Seattle Times)
Washington State’s Real Estate Market November 13, 2009
Washington State Real Estate Outlook
The Washington state real estate market, just like the market in the rest of the country, is starting to rally. But prices on average statewide are still down from last year, even though this time last year the market had already fallen hard. Washington state, bordered with Idaho on the east,… Read More
Back from the Brink: How Online Marketing Let One Broker Adapt and Survive in 2008 and Prosper Today
RISMEDIA, October 27, 2009—Like many truly outstanding real estate professionals, Richard Beckman faced the monster of 2008 without really understanding why things went so universally bad, so quickly. It took a while for most of us to realize that a combination of factors had produced a “Perfect Storm” of disaster for much of the residential real estate business and that only those capable of adjusting and adapting to the new reality would survive and prosper in the future. Unlike many, Beckman
Home sales warming up
I came across this article awhile back and wanted to include this on the webpage.
C.R. ROBERTS; The News Tribune
More home sales closed in Pierce County in July than in any month since August 2007.
Nearly 21 percent more sales – of single-family homes and condominiums – were pending than were pending a year ago.
“I’m a happy… Read More



