The Big Plunge (Seattle Times)

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I saw this article this morning on Twitter from the Seattle Times The Seattle-area housing market’s big plunge Here’s a snapshot of the market on its way up in 2005, near its peak in 2007, and three years after the fall in 2010. By Eric Pryne Seattle Times business reporter Back in 2005, houses were… Read More

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Meet the Millennials (Seattle Times)

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Meet the Millennials: Our most educated generation faces a most challenging time Ushered in with the first Baby on Board signs in the early 1980s, Millennials were cocooned, coddled and chauffeured by their parents. Today, the kids are coming of age in the worst economy since the 1930s. By Bob Young JASON YU is hiding… Read More

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Current Mortgage Trends (Seattle Times)

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Mortgage trends to watch at year’s end By HOLDEN LEWIS Bankrate.com Related Mortgage rates will remain low, getting a home loan will continue to take a long time and refinancers will be tempted by mortgages with zero-closing costs. Those are some of the trends industry insiders may see as the year closes out. Mortgage rates… Read More

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FHA concessions of 6% to disapear soon. (Seattle Times)

Days numbered on 6% FHA concessions By Kenneth R. Harney Syndicated columnist WASHINGTON One of the key attractions of FHA home-mortgage financing is going, going, but not quite gone. Sellers and buyers who move fast can still make the most of it. Sometime this summer, the Federal Housing Administration plans to slash maximum “seller concessions”… Read More

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Seattle Shipward staying afloat (Seattle Times)

Seattle’s Todd Pacific Shipyards stays afloat in a sinking industry By Susan Gilmore THERE SHE WAS: one of the state’s most influential legislators, a 69-year-old grandmother fitted with a hard hat and goggles and climbing a narrow, icy ladder while dodging sparks from a welding torch on a cold December afternoon. Why do that? For… Read More

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