Bellevue
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Bellevue
Real Estate News and Questions
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Listings of Bellevue Foreclosures are now available on SeattleHome.com. Search all of the bank-owned homes in Bellevue - houses, townhomes, and condos.
Bank-owned homes are available on the NWMLS for agents to search, but the publicMLS interfacedoesn't allow for this search. We now have weekly updates of Bellevue bank-owned homes, all
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If I'm the only one in this boat, I'd be very surprised.
Things have been, let's say, interesting lately. Actually, "challenging" would be putting it mildly. Many changes in the mortgage business and I've found myself scrambling a bit to keep up with everything. Unfortunately, my blog posting frequency has paid
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Some time ago a house came on the market not far from my own house. I drove by it almost every day as it continued to sit on the market through numerous price decreases. One day I looked the property up on the MLS and noted that it had fallen so
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After a long eight years, I have finally convinced my husband to remodel the kitchen and the rest of the house. We decided to go all out and I am very excited for how it will turn out. Even though construction is not yet done, I thought I would share with
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As I have mentioned before, my husband participates on a large alias at his work where people ask questions about homes and real estate. Over time, he has noticed that a huge number of them will not even consider a full service 3% agent. They want discounts and many of them
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Recently my husband showed me a thread from his work where the thread went similar to this.
Question: Could someone recommend a realtor that is an expert in Education Hill?
Reply: I recommend "so and so". He is a very good agent.
Reply: Do not use anyone in that office. I
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Just 5 days,that's what I have to find a home. I don't need a home for myself, but my best friend my cat "Buddy".
Having traveled through Iraq for the last 14 months I've used pet-sitters to come to our home and check on his needs, and I don't think
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$595000 / 3br - 1.75ba very clean Enatai home w/ 2FP in Bellevue
A terrific home in a fantastic location, it doesn't get better than Enatai for this price in Bellevue. The spacious rambler features a large master bdrm with it's own access door leading to the broad back patio &
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This Week: The median single family home price in Bellevue this week is $799,974 With inventory trending up but days. With inventory trending up but days-on-market trending down and the Market Action Index essentially flat recently, conditions don't seem to have strong up or down pull.
PRICE: The market has
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The US Department of Housing and Urban Development announced today that the $8,000 tax credit is officially approved for use as down payment provided at closing!
Woah, pump the brakes dude.
Before you leave work early to write an offer, we're still one step away -- getting the lenders ready to
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Mortgage Rates have gotten a little squirrelly of late, and are up about .25% from my last posting, here (yes, you must read my previous post -- it's the ol' bait-and-switch).
Many Economists (whoever that guy is, he sure is mysterious) say that rates are likely going to climb to 6%
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In January I posted a survey of median prices of houses sold in the areas for the different Bellevue high schools. Now that some time has passed by, I thought it would be interesting to take a look at the prices again to see how they have changed. Of course, I
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Recently I wandered over to the Robinswood park area of Bellevue and had a look around. This is a very nice and decently priced area of Bellevue that is very close to the I-90 entrance. Homes in this area are very reasonably priced and in a recent search I found homes
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Bellevue's waterfront homes have seen some significant sales so far in 2009. According to the NWMLS, there have been 9 waterfront single family homes sold so far this year, ranging from $1.05 million to $3.68 million. Who says there are no buyers forhigh end properties?
These waterfront homes all seem to
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How's everybody doing? Everyone keeping up?!?
Washington State legislature passed a law recently that allocated funds to be used as short-term loans that would provide the $8K tax credit up-front, at closing to be used as down payment or for closing costs! You can read a recent article on the subject
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Interest rates today remind me of my 1 1/2 year-old... I turn my back for ONESECOND and he falls down! Based on a number of factors including unemployment numbers coming in worse than expected, mortgage rates went down today, closing at the recent low:
4.5% Rate / 4.673% APRP & I
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Shaun Donovan, HUD secretary announced that FHA will allow the $8,000 tax credit to be used for down payment at a NAR conference yesterday. We do not expect any details on the program from HUD until next week. His comments seem to have traveled through the real estate industry very quickly
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I have received alotof feedback on my original posting entitled "The Home Affordability Refinance Program." You can read the original post and comments here. The goal of my original posting was to provide information regarding the newly announced "Making Home Affordable Program."Here' s a quick review:
The program has two components:
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The following are the most common mistakes I see from agents not accustomed to working with REO properties. From my experience, the majority of agents make at least one of these mistakes, so I hope this list is helpful.
1) Agent only remarks on MLS do read it.Many listing agents will
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Recently while my family and I were on vacation, one of my listings went active. As the property was not ready before we left for vacation, the only pictures used in the listing were a few snapshots I took during the premarketing.
The home stayed active for six days with a
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It isn't too far of a drive from up here in Lynnwood and Everett to get to this free financial literacy class in Bellevue this weekend. I am really excited to go and learn some new skills to help keep our household budget in shape and keep us on the path
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For any fellow Princess Bride fans, that classic line can be used in myriad ways. In this case, I'm absolutely flabbergasted that we haven't seen an increase in mortgage rates. In fact, they might have smidged down. This is to me absolutely, positively, and unequivocally, inconceivable.
Oh no wait, now they're
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HEADLINE: Baltimore Sun: Shortage Of New Homes Seen -- Credit Crunch Means Fewer Units Will Be Ready When Recession Eases
Analysts have been predicting a shortage on new homes in the Puget Sound area will start in September due to the lack of new construction permits being issued.
Looking at this
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Sorry for the long delay, as my husband, kids, and I were traveling through Turkey. We visited Istanbul, Antalya, and Cappadocia and it was a great trip. My favorite part was Cappadocia.
There we stayed in a cave house called Kismet Cave House and the experience was amazing. It is
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Question: I need license renewal in WA. Do you know any affordable online classes that are license approved?
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ActiveRain is moving our offices to Seattle! Bye Bye Bellevue |
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