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Nelya Calev | John L Scott | 425-301-7564 2413 108th Ave NE, Bellevue, WA Back on the Market. Bank Owned in W Bellevue 5BR/5BA Single Family House offered at $1,119,000 Year Built 2007 Sq Footage 4,440 Bedrooms 5 Bathrooms 5 full, 0 partial Floors Unspecified Parking Unspecified Lot Size 8,405 s...

Obviously I can't give links to the exact listings, but I found the following amusing lately. - "Caution. Do not approach seller".  What happens if I do?  Does the seller bite?  If the seller approaches me, should I run away? - Another listing consisted of views seen from someone staring down all...

Things certainly have been stressful lately.  Between working extra hard to make sure that homes close as they should due to freaked out buyers and the worry that my husband won't have a job, there has been more than enough to worry about lately. We of course have met this by preparing for the wo...

Recently I heard about a friend that owns number of investment properties.  During the boom, he dabbled significantly in real estate investments and built up a decent portfolio containing seven properties (not including his own).  He would keep properties for a period of time and sell them once h...

Perhaps the most common question I hear from potential clients is Would you honestly buy a house yourself right now? My answer is Yes I would, but with some preconditions. I honestly would buy a house right now, if we had the necessary savings to make such a move.  If we did, I would buy a house ...

Unless you do not live in this area or have been living in a cave, you probably have heard that Microsoft will lay off 5,000 people.  Of those 1400 occurred on Thursday and the rest will be spread over the next eighteen months.  Of the 1400 laid off immediately, almost 900 of them were in the Pug...

Within the last month, I have noticed a sharp increase in months of inventory and a sharp decrease in sales.  As I am constantly asked when things will get better, I felt that it was first necessary to determine exactly why this is occurring. After all, why are things much worse now than a few mo...

I don't know how many listings I see these days with the words prominently displayed. MOTIVATED SELLER! First of all, what is a "motivated seller".  After all, shouldn't all sellers be motivated in order to place their house on the market?  Yes, I know what this means.  It means that the seller d...

I thought it would be interesting to do a survey of the median cost of a house sold in the areas for the different Bellevue high schools.  Of course, I cannot include the International School because it is by lottery.  Data was obtained using this method and consists of the median house price sol...

While millions of people around the world celebrate the inauguration of Barack Obama, I think we should give the outgoing president, George W. Bush, a bit of slack.  The following are a list of positive things that occurred during his administration. The earth did not crash into the sun. He provi...